Tommaso Agudio

Tommaso Agudio (born April 27, 1827 in Malgrate , † January 5, 1893 in Turin ) was an Italian engineer .

Agudio graduated from Pavia in 1849 and went to Paris , where he specialized in engineering and metallurgy. As head of the technical department of the Chemin de fer de l'Est , he took part in the construction of the Paris - Mulhouse railway line. He was the designer of the gun foundry at the Turin Arsenal.

Between 1860 and 1865 he was a member of the Camera dei deputati (Italian Parliament).

Between 1860 and 1870 he developed a funicular system that used an endless rope to move a locomotive called a "tractor". The rope was driven in one of the two end stations and acted on two large pulleys attached to one side of the locomotive, over which it ran twice. The pulleys transmitted the traction energy to a drive roller, around which was in turn looped on a fixed rope between the rails, on which the tractor could pull itself up the mountain.

Test facilities were located in Dusino and between Lanslebourg and the Mont Cenis pass summit, with the latter not being driven on a fixed rope, but in the manner of a rack railway . The system was used regularly on the railway from Sassi to the pilgrimage site of Superga near Turin , with parts of the test route at Mont Cenis being used. The railway remained in operation from 1884 to 1935 and was then converted into a rack railway (see Superga rack railway ).

Tommaso Augudio the cable car manufacturer was Agudio founded the ropeways , aerial tramways and detachable and fixed chair lifts manufactured. Well-known cable cars are the cable car to the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro and the Funitel Europa in Arabba . Agudio also built many small gondola lifts in Italy with cabins designed by Pininfarina . After the agudio group went bankrupt, it was taken over by Pomagalski and renamed Poma-Italia . Since the end of 2007 the name Agudio has been used again.

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Individual evidence

^ Walter Hefti: Rail cable cars all over the world. Inclined cable levels, funiculars, cable cars. Birkhäuser, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0726-9 .
The Agudio system was laid out along the Fell system, which ran from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne via Lanslebourg and the Mont-Cenis Pass to Susa in Piedmont. After the opening of the Mont-Cenis tunnel , the railway was stopped after only 3 years of operation.

↑ Alain Peynichou: Un p'tit train, s'en va dans la montagne ... In: Terra Modana , No. 42, p. 6. ( PDF 1.68 MB ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , French) @1@ 2

personal data
SURNAME	Agudio, Tommaso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian engineer
DATE OF BIRTH	April 27, 1827
PLACE OF BIRTH	Malgrate , Italy
DATE OF DEATH	January 5, 1893
Place of death	Turin , Italy

[hefti-1] Walter Hefti: Rail cable cars all over the world. Inclined cable levels, funiculars, cable cars. Birkhäuser, Basel 1975, ISBN 3-7643-0726-9 .
The Agudio system was laid out along the Fell system, which ran from Saint-Michel-de-Maurienne via Lanslebourg and the Mont-Cenis Pass to Susa in Piedmont. After the opening of the Mont-Cenis tunnel , the railway was stopped after only 3 years of operation.

[2] Alain Peynichou: Un p'tit train, s'en va dans la montagne ... In: Terra Modana , No. 42, p. 6. ( PDF 1.68 MB ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 on the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this note. , French) @1@ 2