@prefix rdf: . @prefix foaf: . rdf:type foaf:Person . @prefix owl: . rdf:type owl:Thing . @prefix ns3: . rdf:type ns3:PeopleFromLyon . @prefix dbpedia-owl: . rdf:type dbpedia-owl:Person , ns3:Person100007846 , ns3:FrenchInventors , ns3:FrenchEngineers . @prefix dbpprop: . dbpprop:name "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re"@en , "Servi\u00E8re, Nicolas Grollier de"@en . @prefix xsd: . @prefix ns7: . ns7:birthDate "1596-01-01T00:00:00-05:00"^^xsd:gYear . @prefix dbpedia: . ns7:birthPlace dbpedia:France , dbpedia:Lyon ; ns7:deathDate "1689-01-01T00:00:00-05:00"^^xsd:gYear ; ns7:deathPlace dbpedia:France , dbpedia:Lyon ; ns7:occupation dbpedia:Inventor , dbpedia:Model_making , dbpedia:Wood_turning ; owl:sameAs , ; foaf:name "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re"@de , "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re" ; foaf:surname "Servi\u00E8re"@de ; foaf:page . @prefix rdfs: . rdfs:label "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re"@en ; dbpedia-owl:thumbnail ; dbpedia-owl:birthDate "1596-01-01T00:00:00-05:00"^^xsd:gYear ; dbpedia-owl:birthPlace dbpedia:Lyon , dbpedia:France ; dbpedia-owl:deathDate "1689-01-01T00:00:00-05:00"^^xsd:gYear ; dbpedia-owl:deathPlace dbpedia:Lyon , dbpedia:France ; dbpedia-owl:occupation dbpedia:Wood_turning , dbpedia:Inventor , dbpedia:Model_making ; dbpprop:abstract "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re (1596 – 1689) was a French inventor and ornamental turner who became well-known for creating a series of fantastic machines. Grollier de Servi\u00E8re was born in Lyon and in his youth followed a military career that took him to Flanders, Germany, Italy and Constantinople; as an engineer, he specialized in deploying movable bridges in the field. After he retired to his home in Lyon, he worked on ornamental lathe-work and built a series of fantastic models. He displayed his work in a cabinet that he opened to the public once a week and which became famous enough to attract politicians, scholars, artisans and other inventors. It featured model water pumps and Archimedes screws, siege engines, designs of floating bridges and clocks regulated by balls travelling down inclined planes or along spiral tracks, machines to trace landscape and to convert plan images into perspective, odometers with reducing gears, wheelchairs, many intricate pieces of lathe-work in ivory and wood, and an improved version of Agostino Ramelli's reading wheel that allowed many books to be read by means of a rotating wheel. Eventually even Louis XIV paid a visit to Grollier de Servi\u00E8re. After his death in 1689, his son Gaspard (1646 – 1716) and then his grandson Gaspard II (1676 – 1745) continued to display the contents of the cabinet, and his son published a book cataloguing the curiosities: Recueil d'Ouvrages Curieux de Math\u00E9matique et de M\u00E9canique, ou Description du Cabinet de Monsieur Grollier de Servi\u00E8re. Charles Plumier, who visited the cabinet after Nicholas Grollier de Serviere's death, wrote the first book about wood turning, L'Art du Tourneur (The Art of the Turner), in 1701. A model of a water driven pile-driver which Grollier de Servi\u00E8re had built on his grounds was given to Stephen Demainbray in 1754 and is now preserved in the George III Collection in the London Science Museum."@en ; rdfs:comment "Nicolas Grollier de Servi\u00E8re (1596 – 1689) was a French inventor and ornamental turner who became well-known for creating a series of fantastic machines. Grollier de Servi\u00E8re was born in Lyon and in his youth followed a military career that took him to Flanders, Germany, Italy and Constantinople; as an engineer, he specialized in deploying movable bridges in the field. After he retired to his home in Lyon, he worked on ornamental lathe-work and built a series of fantastic models."@en ; foaf:depiction ; foaf:givenname "Nicolas Grollier de"@de . @prefix skos: . @prefix ns11: . skos:subject ns11:People_from_Lyon , ns11:French_inventors , , , ns11:French_engineers . @prefix ns12: . dbpprop:wikiPageUsesTemplate ns12:persondata , ns12:infobox_person ; dbpprop:imageSize "160px"@en ; dbpprop:birthPlace , dbpedia:Lyon , dbpedia:France ; dbpprop:deathPlace , dbpedia:France , dbpedia:Lyon ; dbpprop:occupation dbpedia:Model_making , dbpedia:Wood_turning , dbpedia:Inventor ; dbpprop:alternativeNames "Serviere, Nicolas Grollier de; Grollier, Nicolas; Grollier de Servi\u00E8re"@en ; dbpprop:caption dbpedia:Bookwheel ; dbpprop:dateOfBirth 1596 ; dbpprop:dateOfDeath 1689 ; dbpprop:spouse "Yes"@en ; dbpprop:shortDescription "French inventor and engineer"@en ; dbpprop:hasPhotoCollection . dbpedia:Nicolas_Grollier dbpprop:redirect . dbpedia:Grollier_de_Serviere dbpprop:redirect . dbpedia:Nicolas_Grollier_de_Serviere dbpprop:redirect . dbpedia:Grollier_de_Servieres dbpprop:redirect . dbpedia:Nicolas_Grollier_de_Servieres dbpprop:redirect . owl:sameAs .