• Thumbnail for Jakob Amsler-Laffon
    Jakob Amsler-Laffon (11 November 1823 – 3 January 1912) was a mathematician, physicist, engineer and the founder of his own factory. Amsler was born on...
    3 KB (381 words) - 21:07, 25 May 2021
  • Amsler (1791–1849), Swiss engraver Jakob Amsler-Laffon (1823–1912), Swiss mathematician, physicist and engineer Amsler Island, an island of the Palmer Archipelago...
    568 bytes (105 words) - 19:26, 7 April 2019
  • shipbuilder and slave trader Jakob Amsler-Laffon (1823–1912), Swiss mathematicians, physicist and engineer Yolande Laffon (1895–1992), French stage and...
    555 bytes (106 words) - 14:19, 7 November 2021
  • linear, and Prytz or "hatchet" planimeters. The Swiss mathematician Jakob Amsler-Laffon built the first modern planimeter in 1854, the concept having been...
    11 KB (1,557 words) - 01:25, 30 May 2024