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Alois
Negrelli
Alois
Negrelli was a great Tyrolean bridge builder and
engineer. His most famous bridges were the Münster
bridge in Zurich and the Negrelli viaduct in Prague.
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But,
railways were his speciality. In 1835,
Alois Negrelli planned and built the first railway in
Switzerland, The Swiss Northern Railway.
It was 35 kilometres long and ran from Zurich to Baden.
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Alois
Negrelli also helped to plan the Suez canal, but he died
before it was built.
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Alois
Negrelli was born in the Tyrolean village of Fiera di
Primiero on the 8thof October, 1799, and died
in Vienna on the 1st of October, 1858.
Vocabulary
bridge builder - Brückenbauer
built (build/built/built)
– baut
died – (die/died/died)
- starb
famous – berühmt
railway – Eisenbahn
ran – (run/ran/run)
– fuhr
speciality – Fach
Switzerland – die
Schweiz
Swiss – schweizerisch
Vienna - Wien
was born -
wurde
geboren
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