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French Engineer. He introduced the macadam pavement to France and recommended use of road rollers to improve stone roads.
Antoine Remy Polonceau distinguished himself by his ingenuity in many areas. He introduced the macadam pavement to France and recommended use of road rollers to improve stone roads. He is chiefly remembered today for his original and inexpensive innovations for cast-iron bridges, aiming for uniform elasticity and light components in preference to the heavy rigid structures then in vogue. After 1830, he was engaged in design work for several railway lines, including the Paris-Orléans, Orléans-Bordeaux and Paris-Rouen lines, and as far as Le Havre and Dieppe along the Seine valley, the route which was to be chosen later. Later in life he became profoundly deaf and retired to the Franche-Comté region where he spent most of his time working on agricultural improvements.
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variant spelling:
POLONCEAU, Antoine Remy
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History
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* 08.11.1778
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Rheims
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born
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1796
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Paris
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Diplômé de l'École Polytechnique.
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1808 - 1812
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Grenoble à Briançon
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Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées.
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1815
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Seine-et-Oise
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Ingénieur en chef du département de Seine-et-Oise.
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1829
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Notice sur quelques parties des travaux hydrauliques, Carillan-Goeury, Paris,(sur Gallica).
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1829
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Invention du cylindrage : Méthode de Polonceau –(méthode au cylindrage des couches de matériaux)
L'invention du rouleau compresseur, qui sera dénommé ultérieurement compacteur.
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1830
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Département de Seine-et-Oise
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Inspecteur divisionnaire.
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† 31.12.1847
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Roche-lez-Beaupré
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died
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