Adolphe Kégresse, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Adolphe Kégresse

French engineer

Date of Birth: 20-Jun-1879

Place of Birth: Héricourt, Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, France

Date of Death: 09-Feb-1943

Profession: engineer, combat engineer, inventor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Adolphe Kégresse

  • Adolphe Kégresse (1879, Héricourt, Haute-Saône - 1943) was a French military engineer who invented the half-track and dual clutch transmission. Born at Héricourt, and educated in Montbéliard, he moved in 1905 to Saint Petersburg, Russia to work for the Russian Tsar Nicholas II.
  • To improve the mobility of the imperial car park, he invented the Kégresse track to modify normal motor vehicles into half-tracks.
  • He was also a personal chauffeur of Tsar Nicholas II and the Head of the Mechanical Department of the Russian Imperial Garage at Tsarskoye Selo.
  • The Aide-de-camp to Tsar Nicholas II, Prince Orlov wrote in a letter to the Tsar on May 15.1914: "...
  • I consider Kégresse an irreplaceable worker and I am afraid his leaving will be a great loss for the garage.
  • Your Highness knows, of course, how much His Majesty appreciates Kégresse."In 1908, the architect Lipsky VA designed a second two-storeyed Art Nouveau building for the Russian Imperial garage at Tsaskoye Selo / Pushkin, Saint Petersburg it had a total area of 367.6 sq.
  • M.
  • It housed the garage-residence Adolphe Kégresse.
  • The building is noteworthy and identifiable for inclusion of a grand staircase with an external bas-relief image of one of the first car races held regularly in Tsarskoe Selo before the First World War.After World War I Kégresse was forced to return to his home country, where he was from 1919 employed by the Citroën company during the 1920s and 1930s to design half-track vehicles, together with engineer Jacques Hinstin. After leaving the Citroën company he developed in 1935 the AutoServe gearbox-transmission system.
  • In 1939 he pioneered the development of modern small guided tracked bombs.
  • Kégresse died in 1943 at Croissy-sur-Seine.

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