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Édouard Beugniot (1822-1878) was a French engineer, designer of the
Édouard Beugniot (1822-1878) was a French engineer, designer of the Beugniot lever
The Beugniot lever (''Beugniot-Hebel'') is a mechanical device used on a number of locomotives to improve curve running. It was named after its inventor Édouard Beugniot.
Overview
Around 1860, when Beugniot was the chief engineer at the firm o ...
, a system for articulating the driving axles of railway locomotives.
Career
Jean Gaspard Edouard Beugniot was born inMasevaux
Masevaux (; ; gsw-FR, Mà smìnschter) is a former commune in the Haut-Rhin department in north-eastern France.
Demographic evolution
History
On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune Masevaux-Niederbruck.Nicolas Koechlin
The Koechlin family is an Alsatian family which acquired its wealth in the textile industry and became leading industrialists and politicians of the region.
Early family history
The first traces of the family can be found in 1440, when Johann Koe ...
in the same city, and Henriette Berger-Pfeffel. At age 15, Édouard Beugniot left Masevaux to go to Mulhouse
Mulhouse (; Alsatian: or , ; ; meaning ''mill house'') is a city of the Haut-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region, eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders. It is the largest city in Haut-Rhin and second largest in Alsace af ...
as an apprentice mechanic in the foundry of André Koechlin & Cie, whose founder André Koechlin was the first cousin of Nicolas Koechlin.
In 1844, Édouard Beugniot was 22 when he was appointed head of the locomotive department of André Koechlin & Cie. Two years later he qualified as a civil engineer. When the company became Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques, he directed the locomotive construction sector at the Mulhouse plant and worked with Alfred de Glehn. Beugniot designed a system for articulating the driving axles of railway locomotives, known as the Beugniot lever
The Beugniot lever (''Beugniot-Hebel'') is a mechanical device used on a number of locomotives to improve curve running. It was named after its inventor Édouard Beugniot.
Overview
Around 1860, when Beugniot was the chief engineer at the firm o ...
.
Family
Édouard married Maria Charlotte Clémentine Leydle. They had only one child, Marie Jeanne Claudine Henriette Beugniot born in 1859, who married Auguste Jean Hyacinthe Salin in 1878.Death
Édouard Beuniot died on 25 October 1878. He is buried in the Cemetery rue Lefebvre in Mulhouse. His grave has a bust signed Wiedmaier with, on the pedestal, the inscription "To Edouard Beugniot, engineer, his workers and his collaborators".Publication
* Édouard Beugniot et Lebleu, Mémoire sur une locomotive de montagne système E.Beugniot construite par MM.A.Koechlin et Cie : suivi du rapport présenté au nom du comité de mécanique sur la locomotive de montagne de M.E.Beugniot (séance du 28 novembre 1860), Mulhouse, A.Koechlin et Cie, 1860, 97 p..Honours
* Chevalier de l’ordre des Saints Maurice et Lazare (from King Victor Emmanuel) * Officier de l’ordre de Charles III (from the Spanish government)References
Further reading
* Roland Oberlé, « Édouard Beugniot », in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 3, p. 206 * René Limacher, « Jean Gaspard Edouard Beugniot Ingénieur Civil », Patrimoine Doller - Bulletin, no 12, 2002, p. 50-53 * Nicolas Stoskopf, André Koechlin & Cie, SACM, Wärtsilä, histoire de la Fonderie (D’Giesserei) à Mulhouse (1826-2007) : Extrait de l’ouvrage, paru en 2007 sous le titre SACM, quelle belle histoire !, HAL archives ouvertes, 2010, 73 p. (lire en ligne rchive, chap. I (« André Koechlin & Cie (1826-1872), une société, un patron, une usine… »), p. 2-33. {{DEFAULTSORT:Beugniot, Édouard 1822 births 1878 deaths French people in rail transport French railway mechanical engineers