The experts on the Steering Committee for the digital legacy library have developed a project to digitise and exploit the School’s historical collections.

After the Annales des ponts et chaussées, the Mission Journals and Historical Courses will be added to an exceptional digital legacy, which will be accessible online from 2012.
This also includes the iconographic collections and the dedicated lighthouses collection.

Annales des ponts et chaussées

In 2010, the School completed the digitisation of its collection of the Annales des ponts et chaussées for the years 1831-1931, now accessible on Gallica.
In 2011 and 2012, the legal collections will be digitised as part of the special programme for the digitisation and exploitation of legal science documents, codirected by the Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research.

The Mission Journals and Courses

• Written by student engineers in the 19th century during their assignments abroad, at the end of their studies, the oldest Journals surviving at the School date from 1816. Together, they constitute a collection of slightly under 100 Journals, containing more than 28,000 pages and more than 3000 drawings, often including watercolours.

• In addition, the School’s courses from the early years of the 19th century until 1945 are being digitised, in all comprising more than 450 courses, 150,000 pages and almost 5000 drawings. These courses are a way to follow the evolution of the School’s programmes through subjects such as analysis, architecture, reinforced concrete, civil, maritime and iron construction, political and social economics, geology and mineralogy, hydrology, mechanics, physics, roads, etc.

• The great engineers who taught at the School include names such as Jacques Bresse, Albert Caquot, Philippe Croizette-Desnoyers, Alfred Durand-Claye, Paul Guillemain, Charles Minard, Romain Morandière, Claude Navier, Maurice d’Ocagne, Emile Quinette de Rochemont, Jean Résal, Léonce Reynaud, Paul Séjourné, François Voisin-Bey, etc.

Learn about the School's great figures