EDOUX, Félix Léon (1827 - 1910)

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French engineer. is best known for designing a hydraulic lift named by him "lift" in 1867.

Felix Leon Edoux is best known for designing a hydraulic lift named by him "lift" in 1867. He was graduated from the Ecole Centrale in 1850, in the same class as his friend Gustave Eiffel. First engineer at Mines in North he experimented some fuels and for the Southern Railway Company, he was responsible for studying various metalliferous and coal deposits. Living in Paris, working as a public construction entrepreneur, it is with the first observation of major Haussmanian projects that lead him to imagine a hydraulic lift burdens, which he filed a patent in June 4, 1864. The building construction of five to seven levels involves a water distribution system more efficient: enjoying of an importnant water pressure, Edoux imagined channeling it through a lifting device at the top of the building. The first two hydraulic "elevators" for civil use, are presented at the gallery of machines at the Universal Exhibition in Paris in 1867. In 1884, Eiffel commanded to Edoux an elevator that will be connected from the second floor to the top of the future Eiffel Tower still working in 1983. Subsequently, Edoux was the first in France to build electric lifts based on the German manufacturer Siemens AG models. Edoux opened its own workshops building based in Vaugirard, rue de Sèvres (future Lecourbe Street), on the area between the Francois Bonvin street and Miollis street. The Edoux's company and Co. merged in 1912 with Peter Samain's company, taking the Edoux-Samain name. The new company employed 700 people in workshops at Lecourbe Street and in the Saint-Amand street annex during 50 years. The workshops were decommissioned in 1964.
   
variant spelling:
EDOUX, Félix Léon
   
History  
* 29.05.1827 Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe (Vienne) born
1850 Diplômé de l'École centrale. (Même promotion que son ami Gustave Eiffel).
1851 Ingénieur aux Mines du Nord : expérimentation des combustibles.
04.06.1864 Etude de divers gisements houillers et métallifères pour la Compagnie des chemins de fer du Midi : Dépôt de brevet d’un monte-fardeaux qui le conduise à imaginer un, dont il dépose le brevet le 4 juin 1864.
1867 Créateur d’un élévateur hydraulique baptisé par lui "ascenseur".
1867 Paris Présentation des 2 premiers "ascenseurs" à élévation hydraulique et à usage civil à l'Exposition universelle dans la galerie des machines.
1878 Réalisation d’un ascenseur pour 80 personnes, tour du Palais du Trocadéro, lors de l'Exposition universelle de Paris.
1884 Eiffel commande à Edoux l'ascenseur qui doit relier le deuxième étage au sommet de la future Tour Eiffel, et qui fonctionnera jusqu'en 1983.
1885 France Premier constructeur d’ascenseurs électriques sur le modèle imaginé par le constructeur allemand Siemens AG en France.
1885 - 1926 Réalisation d’une machinerie (une piste-piscine) du Nouveau Cirque.
1889 - 1983 Réalisation d’un ascenseur-double du 2e étage de la Tour Eiffel.
03.01.1892 Officier de la Légion d'honneur.
† 13.10.1910 Paris died
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Industrialisation, ca. 1850-1920
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