Emile Rimailho

Emile Rimailho (born the March 2nd 1864 in Paris - died with Bridge-Érambourg on September 28th 1954) brought various improvements to the guns of use in the French Army after the demolished of 1870: limitation of the retreat, security of the firing, better mobility. Its work is in particular at the origin of the Canon of 75 and the Canon of 155 court to fast shooting, called “rimailho” during the First World War. It had one second career as a head of undertaking, in particular like chair '' Compagnie of the Machines Bull ''.

Biography

The engineer

Wire of a tradesman originating in Saint-Gaudens, Emile Rimailho between with the Polytechnic school in October 1884 then studies with the École of application of the artillery. Under the direction of Emile Holy-Claire Deville, he works like Capitaine with the improvement of the Canon of 75 imagined by colonel Deport as from 1895.

This first weapon being approved by the army (1897), it then makes (as from 1898) several improvements to the howitzer of 155 mm Bange (1881) to make of it a gun court with fast shooting (the 155 C.T.R. model 1904 known as Rimailho): this gun equipped five regiments during the First World War, of which that of the philosopher Alain. Rimailho regretted the imposed technical constraints, for reasons of compatibility with an older material, with its invention, and which limited the range of the weapon with 7.000 Mr.

Here the judgment of Alain on this gun:

I live to arrive Rimailho, guns of 155 with fast shooting; I admired this clever mechanics; I on then occasion to understand that the fast shooting, as the powder without smoke, are ideas of cabinet. The fast shooting makes that one misses soon shell; but especially it overheats the parts and abolishes. And I add that Rimailho had a ridiculously short range; this is why it had well to be brought closer to the lines. The large German howitzers increased to twelve kilometers; thus they were held about out of reach…

In 1899, Emile Rimailho is affected in Africa, then to the rank of Commander directs between 1906 and 1908 a battery of 155 CTR to the 13 {{E}} Régiment of Artillery stationed in Vincennes. After a one year formation to the Center of the high military studies, it is promoted with the rank of Lieutenant-colonel in March 1911.

The head of undertaking

The other officer following the example of (the Colonel S Offset and Louis Filloux), it takes advantage of prematurely its rights to the retirement in February 1913 to enter as plant manager Châtillon-Commentry of the Compagnie of the forging mills and steel-works of the marine and Homécourt , based with Saint-Chamond, in the the Loire. Like any citizen, Rimailho is mobilized on August 2nd, 1914, but the leaders of Navy-Homécourt promptly make include/understand with the Minister for the War which they require the demobilization of their new employee. Rimailho thus “is placed at the disposal of the ministry” on November 12th, 1914. Of return to Saint-Chamond, it is named chief technical officer of the Company in March 1915, and takes again its favorite activity: design and the systematization of the armaments.

In June 1919, it is named administrator of the general Compagnie of construction and maintenance of the material of railroad (CGCEM), station which it will occupy practically the remainder of his life. It is devoted then to the organization of work and the determination of the cost price of the industrial products (theory of the homogeneous sections).

Albert Caquot entrusts to him in 1931 a course of organization of work in the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Aeronautics which has just been created.

Under the Occupation, this partisan of the ideas supporters of corporatism and planners play a leading role in the creation of the Service of study of the new methods of Remuneration of labor (IS USEFUL), an institution inspired of the social Catholicisme which serves propaganda of the Régime of Vichy and of the authorities of Occupation. Rimailho creates a cabinet of engineers Consultant S, the Compagnie of engineers in organization , which relays the ideas of the “Organization to the Frenchwoman”, works published ten years earlier.

Decorations

Commander of the Legion of honor in 1920

Works

“ Report/ratio on the establishment of the cost prices ” (1928), CGPF, 107 p., Paris.
“ the organization with the Frenchwoman ” (1935), notes of the course of Management ensured by Rimailho ENSAE, is a Manifeste inspired by the Taylorisme
as a coll with Hyacinthe Dubreuil. - “ Two men speak about work ” (1939) Editions Bernard Grasset, Paris. In-16 (21 cm), 337 p.
“ Each one its share ” (1947, 2 vol.), ED. Delmas, Paris

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