Ernest Goüin

Ernest Goüin ( born July 22, 1815 in Tours, † March 24, 1885 in Paris) was a French engineering and construction engineer and entrepreneur.

Goüin came from a respected family of Touraine (his ancestors were bankers and businessmen ). His father had a mill in Nantes. He studied at the Ecole Polytechnique in 1836. After that, his family sent him to study the industry to England. Soon after, he was sent by the railway company Paris - Orleans to Manchester, where these locomotives were ordered. Subsequently, he was an engineer at the railway company Paris -Saint Germain. In 1846 he founded his own company Ernest Gouin et Cie in Batignolles in the north of Paris, where he restored locomotives and spinning machines. Soon the iron bridge was added in 1867, and from his company, the Société de Construction des Batignolles (now Spie Batignolles ).

Among his bridges by Asnieres -sur -Seine from 1852, the first major iron bridge in France, an iron bridge over the Scorff in Lorient, a still existing iron bridge in the Rue du Rocher in Paris ( 1868), the viaduct of Culoz heard, The Bridge of Macon, Moissac and Langon, the Margaret Bridge over the Danube in Budapest. In addition, his company introduced numerous other bridges and railway projects in Algeria, Australia, Spain, Romania, Russia, the Netherlands, Italy and Hungary ago.

He is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel tower and a street in Paris is named after him.

At times he was President of the Paris Chamber of Commerce. He was commander of the Legion of Honour.