Charles Dadant

Charles Dadant (1817-1902) was born with Be worth-under-Aubigny and died in Hamilton, Illinois, where he emigrated in 1863. Dadant is regarded as one of the founders of the modern Apiculture. He invented the framework hive Dadant (42 X 26.6 cm) and founded in Hamilton one of the first factories of apiarian material. The factory remains the property of the Dadant family.

Its meeting in 1849 with the inventor Peace of Beauvoys (identified like the author of the first framework hive) and the reading of its work, were one outstanding moment of its life.

Its meeting with the bee-keeper Quimby, filled with enthusiasm it and incited it to continue in bee-keeping. At the end of the civil war, Dadant begins with 9 colonies and traverses the Mississippi, with his/her son where it sells honey and wax (of which it makes candles).

Dadant adopted the system of the mobile framework hives (the bee-keeping known as " mobiliste" is relating to the removable executives which was opposed to the bee-keeping " creationist " where the wax masonries are fixed as the bees build in nature). He adapted his hives to precise dimensions. This choice of hives made perdurer its image in time, by the models of hives which bear its name still today.

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website of the factory Dadant

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