Biographical Information
| Name: | Georges Martin |
|---|---|
| Born in | 1828 |
| Deceased in | 1883 |
Notes & Comments
Georges Martin (1828-83), younger son of Émile Martin (1794-1871) and brother of Pierre-Émile Martin (1824-1915). Seems never to have finished an engineering education like his brother did, but worked for the family construction company branch as site engineer on bridges c.1858-1867:
- Pont de Solférino 1858-59
- Pont de l'Île St. Louis 1862
- Pont El Kantara 1861-63
- Pont Oued-el-Hammam 1867.
Otherwise amateur photographer, who photographed the construction process (one of the earliest such photographic series) of his El-Kantara bridge using two cameras, influenced by, and alongside the German-French pioneering photographer Édouard Baldus (1813-89).
Structures and Projects
Participation in the following structures & large-scale projects:
engineer
resident engineer
Bibliography
- (1865): Pont d'El-Kantara à Constantine (Algérie). Notes, descriptions et dessins relatifs à la construction de l'échafaudage et de l'arche métallique. Thunot, Paris (France), pp. 32.
Relevant Publications
- (2018): The El-Kantara Bridge in Algeria: An Early Development of Cantilevering Construction and What we can Learn from its Documentation in Text and Image (1862-63). In: Construction History, v. 33, n. 1 ( 2018), pp. 69-82.
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