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Albert Auguste Perdonnet

1801 - 1867

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Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Albert Auguste Perdonnet has received more than 10,923 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Albert Auguste Perdonnet is the 329th most popular engineer (down from 283rd in 2019), the 4,923rd most popular biography from France (down from 4,254th in 2019) and the 58th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Albert Auguste Perdonnet ranks 329 out of 389. Before him are T. Keith Glennan, Jack Parsons, Willy Ley, Geoffrey de Havilland, Mario Theissen, and Da-Wen Sun. After him are Octave Chanute, Aldo Costa, Anatoly Blagonravov, Charles Joseph Minard, Leon O. Chua, and Otmar Szafnauer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1801, Albert Auguste Perdonnet ranks 82. Before him are Charles Combes, Jules Pierre Rambur, George Perkins Marsh, Robert J. Walker, Wilhem de Haan, and Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. After him are Athanasios Vouros, and Samuel Gridley Howe. Among people deceased in 1867, Albert Auguste Perdonnet ranks 57. Before him are Juan Álvarez, Phan Thanh Giản, Athanasios Miaoulis, Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg, Charles John Andersson, and Kirkpatrick Macmillan. After him are Ira Aldridge, Robert Smirke, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Sterling Price, Prideaux John Selby, and Thomas Francis Meagher.

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In France

Among people born in France, Albert Auguste Perdonnet ranks 4,923 out of 6,770. Before him are Chrétien Waydelich (1841), Kevin Gameiro (1987), Marie NDiaye (1967), Antoine Blondin (1922), Laurent Garnier (1966), and Édouard Pailleron (1834). After him are Mohamed Sissoko (1985), Zacarias Moussaoui (1968), Georges Johin (1877), Lucien Mérignac (1873), Élodie Bouchez (1973), and Octave Chanute (1832).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Albert Auguste Perdonnet ranks 58. Before him are Louis Pouzin (1931), Pierre-François Bouchard (1771), Robert Esnault-Pelterie (1881), Charles Combes (1801), Louis Armand (1905), and Marc René, marquis de Montalembert (1714). After him are Octave Chanute (1832), Charles Joseph Minard (1781), and Julien Simon-Chautemps (1978).

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