Édouard Charles Romain Collignon (1831–1913) was a French engineer and scientist, known for the

Collignon projection The Collignon projection is an equal-area pseudocylindrical map projection first known to be published by Édouard Collignon in 1865 and subsequently cited by A. Tissot in 1881. For the smallest choices of the parameters chosen for this project ...

and for his role in building railways in Russia.

Career

After graduating from the l'École polytechnique in 1849, he became an ingénieur des ponts et chaussées. He became inspecteur des Ponts et chaussées in 1878. In 1857 to 1862 he played an important role in the construction of railways from Saint Petersburg to Warsaw and from Moscow to

Nizhny Novgorod Nizhny Novgorod ( ; rus, links=no, Нижний Новгород, a=Ru-Nizhny Novgorod.ogg, p=ˈnʲiʐnʲɪj ˈnovɡərət ), colloquially shortened to Nizhny, from the 13th to the 17th century Novgorod of the Lower Land, formerly known as Gork ...

. He was a founding member of the ''Association française pour l’avancement des sciences''. He was the author of studies on the Russian railways and of memoirs and treatises on mechanics.

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articles by Collignon in the database of l'Association française pour l'avancement des sciences. ''This article contains information from the corresponding article in French Wikipedia''. {{DEFAULTSORT:Collignon, Edouard 1831 births 1913 deaths People from Laval, Mayenne École Polytechnique alumni École des Ponts ParisTech alumni 19th-century French engineers French railway mechanical engineers Members of the Ligue de la patrie française