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Jean-François Cail (8 February 1804 – 22 May 1871) was a French entrepreneur and industrialist who was a key figure in French industrialization.
Jean-François Cail (8 February 1804 – 22 May 1871) was a French entrepreneur and industrialist who was a key figure in French industrialization.
Life
Childhood
Jean-François Cail was born the third of eight children on 8 February 1804. He was the son of Charles Cail (1777-1854), a wheelwright, and his wife, Marie Pinpin (1777-1839). The family had a small cottage in Chef-Boutonne, in Deux-Sévres (16).Partnership with Charles Derosne
Jean-François Cail left home in 1816 to start an apprenticeship as a boilermaker. He ended up in the company of Charles Derosne, a manufacturing chemist involved in creating distillation equipment. Getting on well they founded the company Derosne & Cail in 1832. The company specialised in making alcohol and confectionery from sugar beet, and building machines to sell for others to follow the process. This included one of the world's first machines to make children's confectionery. In 1848 Cail obtained licence to copy the patents ofThomas Russell Crampton
Thomas Russell Crampton, MICE, MIMechE (6 August 1816 – 19 April 1888) was an English engineer born at Broadstairs, Kent, and trained on Brunel's Great Western Railway.
He is best known for designing the Crampton locomotive but had many eng ...
and began manufacturing Crampton locomotive
A Crampton locomotive is a type of steam locomotive designed by Thomas Russell Crampton and built by various firms from 1846. The main British builders were Tulk and Ley and Robert Stephenson and Company.
Notable features were a low boiler and l ...
s as well. He was one of the first railway constructors in France.
Derosne died in 1848 and the company got into great trouble because of the 1848 revolution.
Société J. F. Cail & Cie
On 6 June 1850 Cail founded the new company Société J. F. Cail & Cie. It continued to be successful in locomotives and expanded to become an international company, branching especially into engineered structures.Private life
Having become a wealthy man, Mr. Cail built a luxurioustownhouse
A townhouse, townhome, town house, or town home, is a type of terraced housing. A modern townhouse is often one with a small footprint on multiple floors. In a different British usage, the term originally referred to any type of city residence ...
in Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), ma ...
that is used today by the city government as town hall of the 8th arrondissement.
He is buried in an elaborate and huge tomb in Pere Lachaise cemetery Pere may refer to:
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in Paris. The tomb lies towards the north-east at the junction of two paths.
Recognition
A street in Paris is also named after him: Rue Cail. Additionally, his name is among in the 72 names engraved on theEiffel Tower
The Eiffel Tower ( ; french: links=yes, tour Eiffel ) is a wrought-iron lattice tower on the Champ de Mars in Paris, France. It is named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.
Locally nicknamed "' ...
by Gustave Eiffel
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (born Bonickhausen dit Eiffel; ; ; 15 December 1832 – 27 December 1923) was a French civil engineer. A graduate of École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures, he made his name with various bridges for the French railway ...
, in recognition of his contributions to the project.
References
1804 births 1871 deaths Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery 19th-century French businesspeople {{France-business-bio-stub