Albert Auguste Perdonnet

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Auguste Perdonnet

Albert Auguste Perdonnet (born March 12, 1801 in Paris , † September 27, 1867 in Cannes ) was a French engineer and railway pioneer.

Auguste's Protestant father Vincent Perdonnet had immigrated to Paris from Vevey . The École polytechnique , into which Auguste was admitted in 1821, he had to leave the following year because he was suspected of being close to the secret society of the Charbonnerie . He then graduated as a mining engineer from the ENSMP ( École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris ).

Perdonnet dedicated his professional life to building railways. As early as 1830 he published the first relevant monograph in French together with Léon Coste . In 1831 he offered the first French course on railway construction at the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures . In the same year he predicted in a letter that the railroad would not only be suitable for the transport of people and the transport of valuable goods, but that in the medium term it would even be able to compete with the canals . In the mid-1830s, Perdonnet was involved in the planning of the Meudon railway viaduct , which was inaugurated in 1840 and which is now the oldest civil engineering structure in the French railway system. In 1855/56 he published the textbook "Traité élémentaire des chemins de fer" ("Elementary treatise on the railway"). In the Legion of Honor , Perdonnet made it to the "Commandeur" position. From 1862 to 1867 he headed the École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. Perdonnet is buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery.

Perdonnet is one of the 72 people whose name Gustave Eiffel had engraved on the Eiffel Tower . In Paris, near the Gare du Nord, the Rue Perdonnet is named after him.

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SURNAME Perdonnet, Albert Auguste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French engineer and railway pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1867
Place of death Cannes