Gertner Franz Biography
Biography [Edit Edit Source] was born in Prague in Prague the fourth child in the family of Franz Joseph von Gertonner and his wife Gabrieli. Mother died when the French was 12 years old. He studied at the University of Prague, studied philosophy and engineering. At the end of training, he taught practical geometry and land art at the Vienna Polytechnic Institute. He sought to implement a project to build a railway between Vltava and Danube.
To do this, he made a trip to England to study the first railways built there. Ritter von Gerstner concessions for 50 years to create and operate the railway between Budyaz and Mauthausen. In the year he married Josephine Marquise von Lambolin, daughter of a French emigrant. The railway was built by the year, by this time the Gestner became a famous Austrian engineer, professor of the Vienna Polytechnic Institute.
At the invitation of K. Chevkin, on behalf of the Mountain Department, Herrtner arrived in Russia in August for the viewing of mining plants. Here he was inspired by the idea of building railways in Russia. He devoted three months to the collection of statistics: he traveled to many provinces of the Russian Center, got acquainted with the way of life, the state of roads, trade and mining.
He even made a leveling of the Moscow highway. Upon returning to the capital at the beginning of the year, he submitted a note to Emperor Nicholas I, in which he outlined his thoughts on the construction of railways: ... there is no country in a world where railways would be more profitable and even necessary than in Russia, since they make it possible to reduce long distances by increasing the speed of movement ...
[1]. In addition, Gertner in his proposal, among other conditions, demanded that any railway arranged in Russia for twenty years without permission, which received a privilege, turned to his property. Therefore, the implementation of the grandiose plan could not take place then; Herrtner had to be much less. In November, in clear, but very cold weather on the site between the Pavlovsky and Tsarskoye village, the locomotive of Hakworth was first tested.
A trial trip took place in the presence of Nicholas I with the family and a large number of people from all classes of society. The official opening of the Tsarskoye Selo Railway took place on October 30. In the year, Gertner, on the instructions of the Russian government, went to the United States to study railways. He conducted an extensive study of this issue, and upon returning it strongly recommended to attract for the construction of a new railway, which was supposed to connect two Russian capitals-St.
Petersburg and Moscow of American experts. Performs preliminary reconnaissance of the track of the new road. Gertner's opinion about the attraction of American engineers was called into question, and the emperor sent two colonel engineers-P. Melnikov and N. Kraft to an additional study of the problem to Western Europe and the United States. The information that fully satisfied them received only from J.