List of Arts et Métiers ParisTech alumni

This is a list of notable people affiliated with the Arts et Métiers ParisTech. Alumni of the Arts et Métiers ParisTech are traditionally called Gadzarts.

Famous Gadzarts by field[]

"NH Prize" means that the person was awarded the . ^[1]

Armament industry[]

• - Châlons, 1853: production of guns
• - Châlons, 1867: created the modern 75mm gun shell
• - Châlons, 1890: achieved the mass production of 100,000 rockets a day

Automotive industry[]

• Émile Delahaye - Angers, 1859: first to use pumps for water circulation
• - Angers, 1868: first steam tricycle
• - Châlons, 1880: car with stiff frame and effective shock absorbers
• Louis Delâge - Angers, 1890: luxury car maker
• Louis Coatalen - Cluny, 1895: contributed to the famous "Liberty" engine that equipped the US Army trucks during World War I
• - Aix, 1896
• Henri Perrot - Châlons, 1899

Aviation[]

• - Angers, 1859: first helix for airplanes
• Lucien Chauvière - Angers, 1891: known for aircraft propeller designs
• - Angers, 1895: built 40 dirigible balloons
• Louis Béchereau - Angers, 1896: first airplane to reaches a speed of 200 km/h; creator of the famous World War I SPAD air fighter (Guynemer's Vieux Charles), 13,000 of which were built
• Léon Lemartin - Aix-en-Provence, 1902: co-designer of the Gnome Omega rotary aero-engine, pioneer aviator for Bleriot, world record holder
• - Aix, 1909: created the Odier Vendôme biplane and constructed a twin-engined seaplane with ballcocks
• René Couzinet - Angers, 1921: built his famous Arc-en-Ciel, which flew Paris to Buenos-Aires in 2 days and 15 hours
• - Paris, 1924: first flight of the Caravelle
• - Cluny, 1943: creator of the EROS oxygen mask for civil aviation; inventor of a pneumatic harness for the fast use of the mask in flight; NH prize

Railway[]

• Jean-Jacques Meyer - Châlons, 1823: a variable relaxation system for steam engines^[2]
• - Angers, 1829: railway in Russia
• - Angers, 1837: railway of the Andes
• - Châlons, 1847: built the first sleepers, in Moscow, for the Saint Petersburg-Moscow line
• - Paris, 1939: one of the fathers of the High Speed Train (TGV)

Printing Industry[]

• - Châlons, 1839: Manufacture of straw paper mass
• - Châlons, 1842: enhancements of printing machines
• - Angers, 1856: with Marioni, he created the rotary presses
• Louis Moyroud - Cluny, 1933: NH Prize; with René Higonet, he invented the automatic photocomposition, in 1944; member of the American National Inventor Hall of Fame

Navy[]

• - Angers, 1843: first French submarine
• - Châlons, 1861 and - Châlons, 1865: navy turrets
• - Angers, 1862: the first of a long line of Arts & Métiers general mechanics engineer; ranked as an admiral
• - Angers, 1887: warships, the Gerfaut, the Terrible, world speed records

Mechanics - electricity[]

• - Angers 1830: fire pumps
• - Châlons, 1839: specialist of printing and numbering machines
• Lucien Arbel - Aix, 1843: metallurgy, machines
• - Angers 1846: excavators for hard stones
• - Châlons, 1850: centrifugal pumps (see also Le Rialet)
• - Aix, 1851: lifting and handling, brakes
• - Châlons, 1855: founded the Fives-Lille company
• - Châlons, 1865: the Daguin stamping machine
• - Châlons, 1883: production control machines
• - Châlons, 1885: production machines
• - Châlons, 1900: milling machines
• - Lille, 1904:
• Marius Lavet - Cluny, 1910: NH Prize; electric and electronic clocks (quartz watches)
• - Aix, 1916: NH Prize; advanced techniques for metal made buildings
• Pierre Bézier - Paris, 1927: NH Prize; machine tools for mass production (robots); inventor of computer aided design and Bézier curve^[3]
• - Châlons, 1927: developed the integrated circuit technique
• - Paris, 1928: gas and steam turbines
• - Lille, 1938: kinematics of the gears

Textile industry[]

• - Aix, 1847: invented a woolcombing machine for silk scrap

Public infrastructures industry[]

• - Châlons, 1828: first sugar plant in the Nile valley
• - Angers, 1844: Bizerte and Tabarka harbours, Gaza phosphates
• - Angers, 1844: phosphates plant in Krourigba
• - Aix, 1844: Danube navigation
• - Angers, 1846: mechanical excavator for hard stone boring
• - Châlons, 1849 and - Angers, 1875: bridges, tunnels, deep water foundations
• - Châlons, 1849: Trotzki bridge on the Neva river in Petrograd
• - Angers, 1852: viaducts in Cratellauk, Fiaccati
• - Angers, 1856: Suez, Panama and Corinth canals
• - Aix, 1862: close counselor of the Cambodia king, discovered many Khmer people monuments
• - Châlons, 1868: sugar plants, refineries in Egypt
• - Châlons, 1871: Mexico city city, Vera-Cruz bridge
• - Châlons, 1872: Tunis, Sousse and Sfax harbours
• Léon Chagnaud - Châlons, 1881: subway under the Seine river, Rove tunnel, Eguzon stopping, Donzère-Mondragon plant
• - Châlons, 1912: water stopping on the Niger river in Sansanding
• - Châlons, 1919: NH Prize; arch of the CNIT building, Tancarville Bridge, reinforced concrete in thin shells
• - Paris, 1942: Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, Rouen and Sèvres bridges, Eiffel tower handing-over to the standards, building of the Maine-Montparnasse tower
• - Aix, 1946: NH Prize; very deep sea diving; founder and CEO of the Comex company

Miscellaneous (sorted by center of origin)[]

Compiègne[]

• Joseph Meifred - Compiègne-Châlons-en-Champagne, 1801: cornist, pedagogue, horn designer; studied at the Paris Conservatory; based the Society of Arts et Métiers alumni in 1846

Aix-en-Provence[]

• - Aix, 1847: geologist, master in the art of probing the ground; dedicated 44 years of his life to transforming the Sahara desert; by doing this, he saved the Oued Rihr oasis and created around 500 water sources, yielding a total of 250 000 m³/min; created many oases; named "ßou el Ma » (the father of water) by the Saharan people
• Henri Verneuil - Aix, 1940: NH Prize; French film maker

Angers[]

• Jacques Bonsergent - Angers, 1930: accidentally involved in a scuffle with German soldiers in 1940; arrested by mistake, he refused to denounce his companions; sentenced to death by a German military tribunal and became the first shot person in Paris, on December 23, 1940 at age 28; his name was given to a subway station in Paris in 1946

Châlons-en-Champagne[]

• Eugène Houdry - Châlons, 1908: dedicated his life to the development of oil processing techniques; invented several new processes and created 14 big catalytic cracking units; files more than 600 patents; thanks to the higher energetic power of his gasoline, Allied war planes proved superior to their opponents during World War II

Cluny[]

• Pierre Angénieux - Cluny, 1925: NH Prize; high quality camera and cinema lenses; built cameras for space flights; awarded the Gordon E. Sawyer Award

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