Albert Auguste Perdonnet

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

Albert Protestant father Vincent Perdonnet was migrated from Vevey to Paris. The École polytechnique, was admitted to the Albert in 1821, he had to leave in the following year again, as he had fallen under suspicion are almost the Secret Society of Charbonnerie. He received his degree he earned then as a mining engineer from the Mining Academy ENSMP ( École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris).

His professional life was dedicated Perdonnet the railway construction. Already in 1830 he published together with Léon Coste, the first relevant monograph in French. In 1831 he offered at the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures in the first course France for railway construction. In the same year, he predicted in a letter that the railroad even in the situation is not only suitable for the transport of people and transport of valuable goods, but in the medium term, the channels to compete. Mid-1830s was involved in the planning of the 1840 inaugurated the railway viaduct of Meudon Perdonnet, which is the oldest engineering structure of the French railway system today. 1855/56 he published the textbook " Traité élémentaire the chemins de fer " ( "Elementary Treatise on the Railroad "). In the Legion of Honor brought it Perdonnet to " Commandeur ". From 1862 to 1867 he headed the Ecole Centrale des Arts et Manufactures. Perdonnet is buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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

Works

• Mémoire sur les chemins à ornières ( Léon Auguste Coste and Perdonnet, 1830)
• Traité élémentaire the chemins de fer ( Auguste Perdonnet ), Paris, Langlois et Leclercq, 1855-1856

• Member of the Legion of Honor ( Commander )
• Railway engineer
• Born in 1801
• Died in 1867
• Man