54 Facts About Lazare Weiller

Lazare Weiller was a French engineer, industrialist, and politician.

Lazare Weiller was born in Alsace and received a technical education in England and in his cousin's copper factory in Angouleme.

Lazare Weiller was very interested in the physical sciences, particularly the use of electricity to transmit sound and images.

Lazare Weiller proposed a system for scanning, transmitting and displaying images that was the basis for experiments by various television pioneers.

Lazare Weiller sponsored early aviation experiments by the Wright brothers.

Lazare Weiller founded several companies including a telephone wire manufacturer, a taximeter manufacturer, the first Parisian cab company to use automobiles, an aircraft company and a wireless telegraphy company.

Lazare Weiller was a deputy during World War I and then a senator until his death.

Lazare Weiller was born in Selestat, Bas-Rhin, on 20 July 1858.

Lazare Weiller was sent to Angouleme to stay with his uncle Moise Weille while he attended school.

Lazare Weiller's uncle had a business making metal fabrics for the paper industry that he had transferred from Selestat to Angouleme.

Lazare Weiller was not able to enter the Ecole Polytechnique due to health problems, and instead went to Trinity College, Oxford, in England to improve his English and study Greek, physics and chemistry.

Lazare Weiller married his niece Marie Marguerite Jeanne Weiller, but she died soon after.

In 1883 Weiller founded the Societe Lazare Weiller to make telephone and telegraph wire, which later became the Trefileries et Laminoirs du Havre.

On 12 August 1889 Lazare Weiller married Alice Javal in Paris.

Lazare Weiller was the daughter and granddaughter of deputies of Yonne.

Lazare Weiller visited the United States in 1901 and was very impressed by the booming economy and the metallurgical, electrical and mechanical industries.

Lazare Weiller wrote a book on the subject, Les grandes idees d'un grand peuple.

Lazare Weiller tried to explain the racial prejudice he found during his stay in Washington,.

Lazare Weiller observed that the working men of the USA had "a fine sense of their own worth, so that they did not suffer the bitterness and the meanness of class envy, an inestimable boon".

Lazare Weiller lost control of TLH when copper prices collapsed in 1901.

Lazare Weiller was a deputy for Charente from 1914 to 1919, and a senator from 1920 until his death.

In 1920 Lazare Weiller bought the Chateau de Dampierre, a large 19th-century building close to the "Chais Magelis" in Angouleme.

Lazare Weiller built a luxury villa in Cannes, and bought the Hotel de la lieutenance in Selestat.

Lazare Weiller died in Territet, Vaud, Switzerland on 12 August 1928.

Lazare Weiller was very interested in the physical sciences, and particularly electricity.

Lazare Weiller said he was inspired by the experiments by Jules Antoine Lissajous, who had used light reflected from small mirrors to investigate vibratory motion.

Lazare Weiller's proposal was to use a rotating drum to which a number of tangential mirrors were attached, oriented so the image was scanned into a series of lines projected onto a selenium cell.

Lazare Weiller did not follow up on his television invention, but instead turned to wireless telegraphy.

Lazare Weiller wrote papers on scientific subjects such as Etudes electriques et mecaniques sur les corps solides and Traite general des lignes et transmissions electriques, as well as many articles in the Revue des deux Mondes and Le Temps.

Lazare Weiller was involved in early aviation experiments, and devoted 500,000 francs to helping the experiments of the Wright brothers, particularly to those of his friend Wilbur Wright.

On 23 March 1908 Lazare Weiller agreed on terms for the French rights to the Wright brothers' invention.

Lazare Weiller was a member of the Societe de Physique, the Societe internationale des electriciens and the Societe des ingenieurs civils among others.

Lazare Weiller adapted the process of rolling hot steel rods to making copper wire.

Lazare Weiller developed a bronze alloy that combined the conductivity of copper with the strength to remain stretched between poles 50 metres apart, of great value to telegraph and telephone companies, and obtained several patents in France and other countries.

Lazare Weiller collaborated with Jules Lair of the Institut de France in manufacturing and distributing telephones in France.

Lazare Weiller joined the board of the Societe des telephones, which was both a customer and an investor in his company.

Lazare Weiller became associated with Swiss banks, and from 1907 started to acquire facilities and companies to build a huge industrial complex.

Lazare Weiller manufactured "taximeters" to measure mileage and founded the first automobile cab company in Paris.

Lazare Weiller founded the taximeter company in 1903 and the Societe des fiacres automobiles in 1905 in partnership with banks and car manufacturers.

In 1908 Lazare Weiller was president of the TLH, the Chantiers de Dunkerque, the Chantiers de Normandie and the Societe metallurgique bordelaise.

Lazare Weiller was a board member of the Entrepots du Havre, the Docks de Rouen and the Compagnie des Voitures de Place in Paris.

In 1908 Lazare Weiller created a prize of $10,000 for the first person to achieve flight in France.

Lazare Weiller formed a syndicate, the Compagnie Generale de Navigation Aerienne, to market aircraft using the Wright design.

Lazare Weiller had interests in both the Chantiers de Dunkerque and Barriquand et Marre.

In September 1912 Lazare Weiller created the Compagnie universelle de telegraphie et telephonie sans fil.

Lazare Weiller worked with Guglielmo Marconi to set up the first transatlantic telegraphy station, which Telefunken opened in Hamburg in 1913.

Lazare Weiller ran for election to the Chamber of Deputies in 1888 as a republican candidate for Angouleme during the Boulangism crisis, but was defeated.

In 1914 at the request of the government Lazare Weiller visited Switzerland and wrote a report on German propaganda abroad and the shortage of raw materials in Germany.

Lazare Weiller was elected deputy for Charente from 10 May 1914 to 7 December 1919.

Lazare Weiller sat with the left, and was a member of the committees on tax legislation and on posts and telegraphs.

In 1917 Lazare Weiller submitted a project for the people of Alsace-Lorraine to adopt French versions of their [German] names to "protect them from public malignity and the reprisals of the mob".

Lazare Weiller ran for reelection on 16 November 1919 but was defeated.

Lazare Weiller was elected senator for Charente on 11 January 1920 and reelected on 9 January 1927, holding office until his death.

Lazare Weiller sat with the democratic left group, and was a member of the foreign affairs committee.