Jean-Rodolphe Perronet made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Jean-Rodolphe Perronet as French architect.
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet was born at Suresnes in 1708. His recorded nationality is France.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
He worked as architect, civil engineer and encyclopédistes.
Among his principal works are Great Bridge of Nemours, Pont de la Concorde and Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. Technology is judged by adoption: an invention nobody uses is a curiosity.
His work was formally recognised with the Fellow of the Royal Society.
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet died in 1794, aged 86. What survives is the work, which is the only durable form of a reputation.
Achievements
- Notable work: Great Bridge of Nemours
- Notable work: Pont de la Concorde
- Notable work: Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
- Worked as architect, civil engineer and encyclopédistes
