François Joseph des Camus (14 September 1672 – 1732), a French mechanic, was born near Saint-Mihiel, France. After studying for the church, he devoted himself to mechanical inventions, a number of which he described in his Traité des forces mouvantes pour la pratique des arts et métiers, Paris, 1722.^[1]

He died in England in 1732.^[1]

References

• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Camus, François Joseph des". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 140.