Eugène Freyssinet 13 July 1879 at Objat, Corrèze - 8 June 1962, French engineer . July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Corrèze is a département in the center of France. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... 1962 was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... An engineer may be someone who practices the engineering profession, or the driver of a rail locomotive. ...

Set to Moulins, France where he built many bridges until the First World War. He received a distinction for the invention of the jacked arch technique, used for the first time for the bridge at Châtel-de-Neuvre. This article is about the edifice. ... Ypres, 1917, in the vicinity of the Battle of Passchendaele. ...

His many researches allowed him an efficient use of rolling benders, vaults with ribbing on top, and above all, he discovered the vibration of concrete. This article is about the construction material. ...

In the 1920s he led the team who build the Plougastel's bridge with three identical spans of 180 m reach. During this time he discovered the laws of timely deformation of concrete. Sometimes referred to as the Roaring Twenties or the Jazz Age. ... The metre (American spelling: meter), symbol: m, is the basic unit of distance (or of length, in the parlance of the physical sciences) in the International System of Units. ...

In 1933, he consolidated the maritime station of Le Havre which was threatening to crumble. 1933 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Le Havre is a city in Normandy, northern France, on the English Channel at the mouth of the Seine. ...

Until his death he did a lot of excellent activities for his company Campenon-Bernard.