Edouard Beugniot

Jean Gaspard Édouard Beugniot (born February 12, 1822 in Masmünster , † October 25, 1878 in Mulhouse ) was a French engineer and locomotive builder .

Life

Beugniot, son of Jean Claude Beugniots (treasurer of the spinning mill of Nicolas Koechlin (1781–1852) in Masmünster) and his wife Henriette nee. Berger-Pfeffel, left Masmünster in 1837 and began an apprenticeship as a locksmith in the foundry of the Societé André Koechlin & Cie in Mulhouse .

In 1844 Beugniot became head of the locomotive department of Societé André Koechlin & Cie , and in 1846 André Koechlin promoted him to engineer. Around 1860 he developed what is known as the Beugniot lever to improve the locomotives' cornering ability. This lever was installed in two locomotives of the Compagnie des chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée , with which test drives were then carried out on the Swiss Central Railway under the supervision of the engineer Niklaus Riggenbach .

After the Societé André Koechlin & Cie had been transferred to the Elsässische Maschinenbau-Gesellschaft Grafenstaden , Beugniot managed their locomotive plant in Mulhouse. In 1872 he succeeded in persuading Alfred de Glehn to collaborate in his work. In 1878 de Glehn became Beugniot's successor.

The Beugniot lever was used in Germany in the class 82 locomotives of the Deutsche Bundesbahn, the class 105 and 106 of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, and in locomotives from Maschinenbau Kiel .

Honors

Knight of the Order of St. Mauritius and Lazarus (at the instigation of Victor Emanuel II )
Officer of the Order of Charles III. (at the instigation of the Spanish government )

Publications

Édouard Beugniot (together with Lebleu): Mémoire sur une locomotive de montagne système E. Beugniot construite par MM.A. Koechlin et Cie: suivi du rapport présenté au nom du comité de mécanique sur la locomotive de montagne de ME Beugniot (séance du 28 November 1860) . A. Koechlin et Cie, Mulhouse 1860, 97 pp.

literature

Nicolas Stoskopf: André Koechlin & Cie, SACM, Wärtsilä, histoire de la Fonderie (D'Giesserei) à Mulhouse (1826–2007) . Extrait de l'ouvrage, paru en 2007 sous le titre SACM, quelle belle histoire!. 2007 (accessed February 5, 2016).
Roland Oberlé: Édouard Beugniot . In: Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne , Faszikel 3, 1983, p. 206.
René Limacher: Jean Gaspard Édouard Beugniot Ingénieur Civil . In: Patrimoine Doller - Bulletin, No. 12, pp. 50-53.

Individual evidence

^ Jean Gaspard Edouard Beugniot (accessed February 5, 2016).
^ ^A ^b ^c François Bernard: L'Alsacienne de constructions mécaniques: des origines à 1965 . Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2000, 480 pp.
^ Mémoires et compte rendu des travaux de la Société des ingénieurs civils vol. 14, Société des ingénieurs civils, Paris 1861, Machines locomotives à huit roues couplées, système Beugniot (séances of 3 and 17 may).
↑ Annales des ponts et chaussees , chronique, novembre-décembre 1860, pp. 402–404.
↑ ^a ^b Académie de Strasbourg: Récompenses et distinctions (accessed on February 5, 2016).

Web links

Commons : Beugniot lever - collection of images, videos and audio files

personal data
SURNAME	Beugniot, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Beugniot, Jean Gaspard Édouard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French engineer and locomotive builder
DATE OF BIRTH	February 12, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH	Masmunster
DATE OF DEATH	October 25, 1878
Place of death	Mulhouse

[1] Jean Gaspard Edouard Beugniot (accessed February 5, 2016).

[fra-2] A ^b ^c François Bernard: L'Alsacienne de constructions mécaniques: des origines à 1965 . Presses universitaires de Strasbourg, 2000, 480 pp.

[3] Mémoires et compte rendu des travaux de la Société des ingénieurs civils vol. 14, Société des ingénieurs civils, Paris 1861, Machines locomotives à huit roues couplées, système Beugniot (séances of 3 and 17 may).

[4] Annales des ponts et chaussees , chronique, novembre-décembre 1860, pp. 402–404.

[aca-5] Académie de Strasbourg: Récompenses et distinctions (accessed on February 5, 2016).