Albert Caquot Engineer Medal – Signed by Alexandre Morlon (among his last medals)
Bronze
Weight: 236,4 g
Diameter: 76.5mm
Obverse:
Circular inscription: ALBERT CAQUOT
Bust in profile on the left of the great French engineer Albert Caquot (1881-1976).
Signature: MORLON
History (source Wikipedia): Albert Caquot was considered “the greatest living French engineer” for half a century.
He was a Croix de Guerre 1914-1918, member of the Academy of Sciences (1934-1976), Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor (1951) and holder of numerous foreign decorations (notably DSO and Order of Saint-Michel and George St. George and United States Distinguished Service Medal).
Endowed with a fertile and varied faculty of invention, his mechanical and visionary genius applies both to emerging aeronautical construction and to the creation of reinforced concrete structures, with more than three hundred bridges and dams of all types. several of which were world records, and the most varied works of civil engineering.
Reverse:
Various constructions and inventions of Albert Caquot (source “Numismatics in Mâconnais” website):
- The captive balloon designed by Albert Caquot in 1915 which allowed, even in a 90 km/h wind, the observation of enemy movements thanks to its great stability;
- The Caille bridge which spans 140 meters the Usses torrent in Haute-Savoie built in concrete between 1924 and 1928;
- The winch designed by Albert Caquot to maneuver the balloons and which allowed them to be loaded onto Allied ships and made to withstand wind gusts of 125 km/h;
- An aircraft hangar : Albert Caquot was the inventor of a double-canopy hangar in the 1930s;
Registration on five lines:
A
NOTRE MAITRE
SES ÉLÈVES
SES AMIS
1947
Olive branch .
Edge:
Cornucopia hallmark (Paris Mint) + BRONZE
