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The First French Railways of Saint-Etienne (1823-1833)

HISTORICAL STUDIES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING, 1996

At the beginning of 1820s, Saint-Etienne collieries were very promising, but enclosed by transportation difficulties. After the Napoleonic Wars, the new situation the first French Industrial Revolution) led to a reorganization of collieries concessions, more favorable to an industrial exploitation. Several possibilities of new transportation system were tried, such as canals, roads and railways, to the cities along the river Rhône, where there were many industrial consumers and important ports. There are few papers and publications on the history of the first French railways, especially Saint-Etienne railways. The aim of this paper is to overview the design and construction of the first French railways by Marc Seguin. His tubular boiler of 1827 and locomotive for the heavy and hilly transportation are also discussed.

France's Inland Water Transport: Abolish Short-Term Thinking

Executive Intelligence Review, 2006

This article, far from being exhaustive, aims to sketch some broad concepts relative to a new policy required for transportation of both freight and personnel. While it concentrates on France, its principles can be extended everywhere, especially in Europe. Instead of adapting transportation infrastructure to the “current needs” of a misbegotten and territorially unbalanced situation resulting from “globalization,” the proposed public transportation infrastructure planning will be a vector for new, healthy growth, based on the maximum valuation of human potential obtained by more harmonic utilization of geography, combined with a renaissance of research and development, the machine-tool sector, and industry at large.

British transport history: shifting perspectives and new agendas

This chapter is a contribution to the festschrift of Derek Aldcroft, formerly Professor of Economic History at Leicester and Manchester. It offers a retrospective on his contribution to transport history and suggests new research agendas for the subject.

Introduction – New Insights and Perceptions on Railway History

Journal of History of Science and Technology, 2018

special issue: new insights and perceptions on railway history Throughout the nineteenth century and early decades of the twentieth century, railways played a vital role in the construction of nations, economic growth, technological development and the dominance of Western nations over sundry African, Asian, and Latin American territories. In more or less recent years, different authors have emphasised this agency in several of their classical works, reflecting in some way the representations and the feeling of technological sublime 1 that contemporaries of the first decades of the locomotive had. Hobsbawm called them the most spectacular symbol of the nineteenth century, 2 while Adas deemed them pioneers of civilisation, conquerors of time and space, unrivalled promoters of migrations, settlement and 1 That is, the pleasure of observing a moving machine, as a symbol of the triumph of technology and Man's ingenuity. Kasson considered the railway "the most common vehicle of the technological sublime."

Transport History in France: A Bibliographical Review (original) (raw)

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