COUVREUX, Alphonse (1820 - 1890)

French inventor and entrepreneur of public works.

French designer living in Paris at 333 rue Saint-Martin in the early '40s, as an entrepreneur in construction, mainly in the construction of the railway. Alphonse Couvreux is a public works contractor. Inventor of a powerful bucket excavator, he participated in the Suez Canal construction : he was selected for the rock layer excavation and in three years, he extracted 9 million m3 with seven excavators from 1863 to 1868. After Suez, he regulated the Danube and deepened the bottom of the river , then he joined Belgium for the broadening and deepening of the canal from Ghent to Terneuzen, then the installed the port of Antwerp. The bucket excavator has been used since its invention on major projects such as the excavation of the railway (1859), the digging of the Suez Canal (1863) and the Panama Canal (1879). It is still used in opencast mines and quarries.

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Curriculum vitae

* 1820	Paris, France	First patent for pluritroncular shovel. A scale model of the excavator Couvreux 1859 is in the Museum of Technology in Paris.
1859 - 1884		In 25 years: Getting 16 patents (including in 1880 a "digger" railway, dredge lifting slings (Patent No. 40160).
1860		Patent invention: The bucket excavator.
† 1890		mort

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Industrializarea cca, 1850-1920

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COUVREUX, Alphonse (1820 - 1890)