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| x Leffert L. Buck |
Leffert L. Buck (1837-1909) was an American civil engineer and a pioneer in the use of steel arch bridge structures. Leffert graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY in 1868. Some of his projects include:
Before earning his civil...
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| x Sextus Julius Frontinus |
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Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40-103 AD) was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late first century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of...
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| x Fritz Todt |
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Fritz Todt (4 September 1891 – 8 February 1942) was a German engineer and senior Nazi figure, the founder of Organisation Todt. He died in a plane crash during World War II.
Todt was born in Pforzheim, to a father who owned a small factory. He...
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| x Jules Dupuit |
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Jules Dupuit (18 May 1804 – 5 September 1866) was a French civil engineer and economist.
He was born in Fossano, Italy then under the rule of Napoleon Bonaparte. At the age of ten he emigrated to France with his family where he studied in Versailles...
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| x William John Macquorn Rankine |
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William John Macquorn Rankine FRS (5 July 1820 – 24 December 1872) was a Scottish engineer and physicist. He was a founding contributor, with Rudolf Clausius and William Thomson (1st Baron Kelvin), to the science of thermodynamics. Rankine developed...
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| x George Washington Goethals |
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George Washington Goethals [gō-thülz] (June 29, 1858 - January 21, 1928) was a United States Army officer and civil engineer, best known for his supervision of construction and the opening of the Panama Canal. The Goethals Bridge between Staten...
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| x Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle |
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Eduardo Alfredo Juan Bernardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle (born June 24, 1942) is a Chilean politician and civil engineer who was President of Chile from 1994 to 2000. He is currently Senator for Los Ríos and was President of the Senate from 2006 to 2008. He is...
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| x George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. |
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George Washington Gale Ferris, Jr. (February 14, 1859 - November 22, 1896) was an American inventor. He invented the Ferris wheel for the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition in an attempt to create something as impressive as the Eiffel Tower...
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| x James Henry Greathead |
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James Henry Greathead (6 August 1844 - 21 October 1896) was an engineer renowned for his work on the London Underground railway.
Greathead was born in Grahamstown, South Africa; of English descent, Greathead's grandfather had emigrated to South...
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| x Charles Meik |
Charles Meik (born? - 1923) was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Charles' brother Patrick Meik; collectively, they established a company which is now one of the UK's...
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| x Patrick Meik |
Patrick Meik (born? - died 1910) was an English engineer and part of a minor engineering dynasty. His father Thomas Meik was also an engineer, as was Patrick's brother Charles Meik.
Both boys were born in Crowtree Road, Bishopwearmouth, Sunderland....
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| x Thomas Meik |
Thomas Meik (January 20, 1812(1812-01-20) - April 22, 1896) was a British engineer, born in Duddingston, Midlothian. He was particularly associated with ports and railways in Scotland and northern England, and fathered two prominent engineering sons...
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| x Peter W. Barlow |
Peter William Barlow (1 February 1809 – 19 May 1885) was an English civil engineer, born at Woolwich, particularly associated with bridges (he designed the first Lambeth Bridge, a crossing of the River Thames in London), the design of tunnels and...
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| x James Mansergh |
James Mansergh (1824 – 1905) was an English civil engineer.
Mansergh was born in Lancaster. He started his career in railway work and then designed many sewage schemes and fresh water schemes.
His most famous projects were:
He was the President of...
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| x Anton Mussert |
Anton Adriaan Mussert (May 11, 1894 in Werkendam – May 7, 1946 in The Hague) was one of the founders of the National Socialist Movement (NSB) in the Netherlands and its de jure leader. As such he was the most prominent national socialist in the...
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| x Joseph Locke |
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Joseph Locke (9 August 1805 - 18 September 1860) was a notable English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway projects. Locke ranked alongside Robert Stephenson and Isambard Kingdom Brunel as one of the major...
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| x William Tierney Clark |
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William Tierney Clark (23 August 1783 – 22 September 1852) was an English civil engineer particularly associated with the design and construction of bridges. He was among the earliest designers of suspension bridges.
Born in Bristol, he was...
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| x John Wolfe-Barry |
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Sir John Wolfe-Barry (7 December 1836 – 22 January 1918) was an English civil engineer of the late 19th and early 20th century. His most famous project was the construction of Tower Bridge over the River Thames in London.
Wolfe-Barry, the youngest...
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| x Ithiel Town |
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Ithiel Town (October 3, 1784 – June 13, 1844) was a prominent American architect and civil engineer. One of the first generation of professional architects in the United States, Town made significant contributions to American architecture in the...
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| x Thomas Hawksley |
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Thomas Hawksley (12 July 1807(1807-07-12) – 15 September 1893) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with water engineering projects.
The son of John Hawksley and Mary Whittle, and born in Arnold, near Nottingham...
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| x William Henry Barlow |
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William Henry Barlow (1812–1902) was an English civil engineer of the 19th century, particularly associated with railway engineering projects.
Born in Charlton in south-east London, the son of an engineer and mathematician (Professor Peter Barlow,...
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| x William Halcrow |
Sir William Halcrow (July 1883 - 1958) was one of the most notable English civil engineers of the 20th century, particularly renowned for his expertise in the design of tunnels and for projects during the Second World War.
Halcrow was born in...
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| x Robert Stevenson |
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Robert Stevenson (8 June 1772–12 July 1850) was a Scottish civil engineer and famed designer and builder of lighthouses.
Stevenson was born in Glasgow; his father was Alan Stevenson, a partner in a West India trading house in the city. He died of an...
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| x T. Y. Lin |
Tung-Yen Lin (林同炎, pinyin: Lín Tóngyán) (November 14, 1912 – November 15, 2003) was a structural engineer who was the pioneer of standardizing the use of prestressed concrete.
Born in Fuzhou, China as the fourth of eleven children, he was raised in...
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| x C. D. Howe |
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Clarence Decatur "C. D." Howe, PC (15 January 1886 – 31 December 1960) was a leading Canadian politician. In the 1940s and 1950s, he was known as the "Minister of Everything."
Howe was born in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States. By his own words,...
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| x Walter Hohmann |
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Walter Hohmann (March 18, 1880 - March 11, 1945) was a German engineer who made an important contribution to the understanding of orbital dynamics. In a book published in 1925, Hohmann demonstrated a very fuel-efficient path to move a spacecraft...
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| x Clifford Milburn Holland |
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Clifford Milburn Holland (March 13, 1883 - October 7, 1924) was born in Somerset, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Edward John Holland and Lydia Frances Hood. He graduated from Harvard University with a B.A. in 1905 and a B.S. in Civil...
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| x Robert Mylne |
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Robert Mylne (4 January 1733 – 5 May 1811) was a Scottish architect and civil engineer, particularly remembered for his design for Blackfriars Bridge in London. Born and raised in Edinburgh, he travelled to Europe as a young man, studying...
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| x Eugène Freyssinet | Institution of Structural Engineers |
Eugène Freyssinet (13 July 1879 – 8 June 1962) was a French structural and civil engineer. He was the major pioneer of prestressed concrete.
Freyssinet was born in at Objat, Corrèze, France. He worked in the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in...
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| x John Frank Stevens |
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John Frank Stevens (25 April 1853–2 June 1943) was an American Engineer who built the Great Northern Railway in the United States and was chief engineer on the Panama Canal between 1906 and 1908.
Stevens was born in rural Maine, near West Gardiner...
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| x Henri Marc Brunel |
Henry Marc Brunel (b. 27 June 1842, d. 1903) was the second son of the celebrated English engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and followed his father's footsteps in becoming a civil engineer.
Brunel attended King's College, London, from 1859–1861, and...
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| x James Buchanan Eads |
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James Buchanan Eads (May 23, 1820 – March 8, 1887) was a world-renowned American civil engineer and inventor, holding more than fifty patents..
Eads was born in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, and named for his Mother's cousin, then Congressman and...
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| x A. M. Hamilton |
Archibald Milne Hamilton (1898 - 1972) was a New Zealand-born civil engineer, notable for building the Hamilton Road through Kurdistan and designing the Callender-Hamilton bridge system.
He was born in Waimate, New Zealand, the son of W.M. and J.S....
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| x John By |
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Lieutenant-Colonel John By (August 7, 1779 – February 1, 1836) was an English military engineer, best remembered for supervising the construction of the Rideau Canal and, in the process, founding what would become the city of Ottawa.
Born in Lambeth...
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| x Horace Darwin |
Sir Horace Darwin, KBE, FRS (13 May 1851 - 29 September 1928), a son of the English naturalist Charles Darwin, was a civil engineer.
Darwin was born in Down House in 1851, the fifth son and ninth child of the British naturalist Charles Darwin and...
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| x George Bates Nichols Tower |
George Bates Nichols Tower (1834 – 1889) was an American civil and mechanical engineer and Union naval officer during the American Civil War. He served for at least part of his term of service on the USS Canandaigua as chief engineer. He was also a...
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| x John Rennie |
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Sir John Rennie (30 August 1794 in England – 3 September 1874) was the second son of engineer John Rennie and brother of George Rennie.
John Rennie was born at 27 Stamford Street, Blackfriars Road, London, on 30 Aug. 1794. He was educated by Dr....
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| x Arthur Plunkett |
Arthur Lancelot Bonner (Lance) Plunkett was a civil engineer involved in the design of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Between 1924 and 1926, on behalf of Sir Douglas Fox and Partners, Consulting Engineers, he took charge of the office in which the...
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| x William Dargan |
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William Dargan (1799–1867), an engineer, often seen as the father of Irish railways, came from County Laois, Ireland. Born in 1799, he constructed Ireland's first railway from Dublin to Dún Laoghaire (then Kingstown) in 1833. He constructed over 800...
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| x Robert Mallet |
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Robert Mallet FRS (3 June 1810–5 November 1881), Irish geophysicist, civil engineer, and inventor who distinguished himself in research on earthquakes and is sometimes called the father of seismology.
Mallet was born in Dublin, on 3 June 1810, the...
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| x John Gwynn |
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John Gwynn (1713 – 28 February 1786) was an English architect and civil engineer of the 18th century, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768.
Born in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, he worked initially as a carpenter, but then decided...
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| x Pier Luigi Nervi |
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Pier Luigi Nervi (June 21, 1891 - January 9, 1979) was an Italian engineer and architect. He studied at the University of Bologna and qualified in 1913. Dr. Nervi taught as a professor of engineering at Rome University from 1946-61. He is renowned...
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| x Thomas Dadford |
Thomas Dadford, Senior (died 1809) was an English canal engineer, as were his sons, Thomas Dadford Junior, John Dadford and James Dadford.
He probably originated from Stewponey or Stourton near Stourbridge. He started as one of James Brindley's many...
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| x Thomas Dadford, Jr. |
Thomas Dadford (Junior) (c 1761 to 1801) was an English canal engineer, who came from a family of canal engineers. He worked with his father and later independently, contributing to a number of canal schemes before dying at the relatively young age...
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| x John Dadford |
John Dadford was an English canal engineer, as were his father Thomas Dadford and brothers Thomas Dadford Junior and James Dadford.
From 1794 - 1797, he was Engineer of the Montgomeryshire Canal. The Vyrnwy Aqueduct and Berriew Aqueduct both had...
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| x James Dadford |
James Dadford (born 1769) was an English canal engineer, as were his father Thomas Dadford and brothers Thomas Dadford Junior and John Dadford.
He was engineer of the Gloucester and Berkeley Canal from 1795 to 1800.
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| x David Alan Stevenson |
David Alan Stevenson (1854, Edinburgh – 1938) was a lighthouse engineer who built twenty six lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Born into the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers, son of David Stevenson, brother of Charles Stevenson, and...
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| x Charles Alexander Stevenson |
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Charles Alexander Stevenson (1855, Edinburgh – 1950) was a Scottish lighthouse engineer who built twenty three lighthouses in and around Scotland.
Born into the famous Stevenson family of lighthouse engineers, son of David Stevenson, brother of...
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| x Thomas Stevenson |
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Thomas Stevenson (1818-1887) was a pioneering Scottish lighthouse designer, who designed over thirty lighthouses in and around Scotland, as well as the Stevenson screen used in meteorology. His designs, celebrated as ground breaking, ushered in a...
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| x Alan Stevenson |
Alan Stevenson (1807, Edinburgh – 1865) was a lighthouse engineer who was Engineer to the Board of Northern Lighthouses.
A member of the famous Stevenson family of engineers, eldest son of Robert Stevenson, and brother of David and Thomas Stevenson,...
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| x Otto Mohr |
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Christian Otto Mohr (October 8, 1835 – October 2, 1918) was a German civil engineer, one of the most celebrated of the nineteenth century.
Mohr was born the son of a landowning family in Wesselburen in the Holstein region and at the age of 16...
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| x Carl Culmann |
Carl Culmann (July 10, 1821 – December 9, 1881) was a German structural engineer.
Born in Bad Bergzabern, Rhenish Palatinate, in modern-day Germany, Culmann's father, a pastor, tutored him at home before enrolling him at the military engineering...
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| x Tatsuo Endo |
Tatsuo Endo (1925 - 1989) was a Japanese engineer who, in 1968 along with M. Matsuiski, developed the rainflow-counting algorithm for fatigue analysis of structures while a visiting professor at the University of Illinois.
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| x William Fairbairn |
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Sir William Fairbairn, 1st Baronet (of Ardwick) (19 February 1789 – 18 August 1874) was a Scottish structural engineer.
Born in Kelso to a local farmer, Fairbairn showed an early mechanical aptitude and served as an apprentice millwright in...
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| x Walter Moberly |
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Walter Moberly (1832 – 1915) was a civil engineer and surveyor who played a large role in the early exploration and development of British Columbia, Canada, including discovering Eagle Pass, now used by the Canadian Pacific Railway and the Trans...
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| x Maurice Koechlin |
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Maurice Koechlin (March 8, 1856 - January 14, 1946) was a French-Swiss structural engineer.
Born in Buhl, Haut-Rhin, he studied at the lycée in Mulhouse then at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under Carl Culmann.
Much of his work was in...
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| x Hardy Cross |
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Hardy Cross, 1885-1959, born in Nansemond County, Virginia, was a U.S. structural engineer and the developer of the moment distribution method for structural calculation of large buildings. The method was in general use from c.1935 until c.1960 when...
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| x Washington Roebling |
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Washington Augustus Roebling (May 26, 1837 – July 21, 1926) was an American civil engineer best known for his work on the Brooklyn Bridge, which was initially designed by his father John A. Roebling.
The eldest son of John Roebling, Washington was...
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| x G. Wayne Clough |
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Gerald Wayne Clough (born September 24, 1941) is the former president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is notable for being the first alumnus to hold that position. He stepped down as president of Georgia Tech on July 1, 2008 to serve as...
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| x Guillaume Henri Dufour |
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Guillaume-Henri Dufour (15 September 1787, Konstanz - 14 July 1875, Geneva) was a Swiss general, bridge engineer and topographer. He served under Napoleon I and led the Swiss forces to victory against the Sonderbund. He presided over the First...
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