Reseaux d’ingenieur

Jules Petiet, de l'Ecole centrale aux chemins de fer (1830-1870)

by Jean-Pierre Williot

Book cover: Reseaux d’ingenieur

Extent: 737 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: French Studies, Nineteenth-Century Studies

Series: Histoire des techniques

Series volume number: 33

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(August 2024)

ISBN: 9782406170266

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $61.00

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Hardback (Published)

(August 2024)

ISBN: 9782406170273

8.62 x 5.91 inches

Price: $121.00

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This biography covers the period of the first industrialization in France. Part of the first graduating class of the Ecole centrale, Jules Petiet’s career took him from a civil engineering firm to the French railway network, before becoming head of the Ecole centrale. He represents a society on the move.

  • By (author) Jean-Pierre Williot