Ernest Gouin

Construction of engines

It directs from 1839 to 1845 the workshops of the railroad of Paris to Saint-Germain, then it will supplement its technical training in the large English workshops. It is in charge of the control of the machines ordered with the workshops of Sharp to Manchester by the Compagnie of the railroad from Paris to Orleans.

In 1846, it founds its own company, Ernest Gouin & Co, in the small village of the Batignolles, in the north of Paris, currently between the streets Boulay and Emile-Level.
Il launches out in the manufacture of locomotive and machines of spinning mill.
Cette company employs then to two thousand workmen.

Steel construction and railway infrastructures

In 1849, it introduces in France the technique of the Pont S in Tôle riveted. It diversifies the activities of its company, which becomes in 1867 the Société of Construction of Batignolles, (today Spie Batignolles), towards the sectors of the steel Construction and the railway infrastructures.

Works of art

Him the construction of very many works of art is owed (bridges of railroad, road bridges):

old bridge of Asnières-sur-Seine (1852), first large Metallic bridge French
bridge of the Street of the Rock (1868) article on Structurae, Paris 8th (always of use)
old railway bridge of Lorient - Lanester, on the Scorff
viaduct of Culoz
bridge of Mâcon
old bridge of Langon
old bridge of Moissac
Bridge Marguerite article on Structurae on the the Danube, with Budapest (rebuilt with identical after 1945)
many bridges and railway infrastructures in Algeria, Australia, Spain, Holland, Hungary, Italy, Romania, Russia

Homages

Its name is registered on the Eiffel Tower.
the hospital of Clichy bears its name.

External bonds

Ernest Gouin, on Structurae
Ernest Gouin, Planet TP
Goüin Hospital, in Clichy-the-Garenne

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