Michel Cotte Regarding Marc Seguin Box 1 of 2, 1995

French historian of civil engineering Michel Cotte presented a paper on suspension bridges at the 1999 International Conference on Historic Bridges to Celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the Wheeling Suspension Bridge, which Kemp and the IHTIA organized. Cotte sent Kemp his dissertation and biography of civil engineer Marc Seguin, called Innovation et Transfer de Technologies, le Cas de Enterprises de Marc Seguin, France 1815-1835. The box includes the first half of an unbound copy of the monograph and a copy of the full monograph on floppy disks. Subjects include Seguin’s upbringing and training as a civil engineer; the context of transportation, public works systems, and technical knowledge at the time; bridge construction on the Rhône River; the development of suspension bridge knowledge; construction of the Tournon-Tain Bridge in Tournon-sur-Rhône, Ardèche, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; steam navigation on the Rhône, the construction of the rail line from Saint-Etienne in Saint-Etienne, Loire, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France to Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France; and thermodynamics of Seguin’s design.