In the history of technology, Louis Favre is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Louis Favre as Swiss engineer (1826-1879).
Louis Favre was born at Chêne-Bourg in 1826. His recorded nationality is Switzerland.
The nineteenth century professionalised nearly everything: salaried posts, formal training, and audiences large enough to sustain a career.
Louis Favre is described as architect, engineer and civil engineer.
The engineer's achievement usually disappears into infrastructure, which is the point.
That the work was done from Switzerland matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 1879, at 53. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Worked as architect, engineer and civil engineer
