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Albert Auguste Perdonnet
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Jean Albert Vincent Auguste Perdonnet (12 March 1801, Paris – 27 September 1867, Cannes) was a French railroad engineer. He published the first French textbook on railroad engineering in 1828. He also worked to investigate and remove the causes of railroad accidents.
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Perdonnet's name is one of the 72 names on the Eiffel Tower.
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