[eng] World energetic crisis and changes of the french productive system on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. the 1873 goal crisis and the 1973 oil crisis. . It is worthwhile examining the relationships between the situation of oil market since 1973 and the coal industry crisis experienced...

[eng] Abstract The carreer of Edmond Bartissol illustrates how, without actually qualifying as an engineer, it was possible, in the nineteeth century, to make one's mark in civil engineering. After a period spent working for the Suez Canal contruction site, Bartissol entered into a partnership...