Germain Sommeiller (February 15, 1815, in Saint-Jeoire – July 11, 1871) was an Italian civil engineer from Savoy. He directed the construction of the Fréjus...
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d'Etiache and Rognosa del Sestriere. The new name was chosen to honour Germain Sommeiller, the civil engineer which directed the construction of the Fréjus...
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engineer Germain Sommeiller (1815-1871) and his colleagues, Grandis and Grattoni. Thereafter, many inventors refined the pneumatic drill. Sommeiller took...
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famous for having designed and directed with Severino Grattoni and Germain Sommeiller the works for the construction of Frejus railway tunnel (also known...
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statesman. He is best known for working with Sebastiano Grandis and Germain Sommeiller in the Traforo del Cenisio (the Fréjus Rail Tunnel, also called the...
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(2,542 metres (8,340 ft)). Headed by the Savoyard civil engineer Germain Sommeiller, construction of the tunnel commenced during August 1857, at a time...
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discovered Nitroglycerin. Mario Soldati (1906–1999), writer, director. Germain Sommeiller (1815–1871), civil engineer. Piero Sraffa (1898–1983), economist....
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A late 19th-century pneumatic rock-drilling machine, invented by Germain Sommeiller and used to drill the first large tunnels through the Alps...
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engineer and military naval officer, creator of the first human torpedo. Germain Sommeiller (1815–1871), civil engineer. He directed the construction of the Fréjus...
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ceded to France and the project was resumed under the leadership of Germain Sommeiller. On 17 September 1871 the first train travelled through the Fréjus...
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II. He was born in Cuneo on 7 July 1892, and after attending the "Germain Sommeiller" technical institute in Turin, in 1913 he entered the Royal Academy...
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Busalla and Pontedecimo. A group of engineers, including Henri Maus and Germain Sommeiller, studied new types of locomotives, also built by the Stephenson workshops...
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achieve fame during his life, since the invention was patented by Germain Sommeiller, but his work was recognized, especially by the architect Luca Beltrami...
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two firemen. This solution impressed the brilliant Italian engineer Germain Sommeiller but he considered it would be difficult to negotiate the sharp curves...
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