Ministry of Ecology
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The men who engineered the earthworks
Published on 7 February 2008
The men who engineered the earthworks
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Labourer with pick and shovel - Landowner
Photo: Razel company (Sculptor - Carlier)
Photo: Razel company (Sculptor - Carlier)
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Ferdinand de LESSEPS 1805-1894) Photo Razel company
The labourers
Peasants of Mesopotamia and the Nile
Roman legionary
Labourer with pick and shovel
Platelayer
Machine driver: a landowner.
Some great men
Hercules cleaned the Augean stables by diverting the River Alpheus.
Leonardo da Vinci (1500) worked on machines for excavating, lifting and dredging.
Charles de Coulomb (1773) is the forerunner of soil mechanics.
Ferdinand de Lesseps (1850) excavated the Suez Canal with excavators on rails.
Léon Lalanne (1879) for a calculus of earth movements.
René Razel (1927) with the introduction of caterpillar tractors and draglines in France.
Karl von Terzaghi, father of soil mechanics.
Jean Lehouérou-Kérisel (1950) with soil mechanics in France.