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3 unusual facts about Monier


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Damien Monier (born 1982), French professional road bicycle racer

Louis Monier (born 1956), founder of Internet search engine AltaVista

Joseph Monier (1823-1906), one of the principal inventors of reinforced concrete


Joshua Thomas Noble Anderson

After a meeting with Frank Gummow of Sydney in 1897, Anderson negotiated an agreement for the firm to became the Victorian agents for reinforced concrete using the Monier patents and won several contracts for bridges using the technology and he and Monash concentrated on building concrete bridges.

Sanskrit studies

The nineteenth century was a golden age of Western Sanskrit scholarship, and many of the giants of the field (Whitney, Macdonnell, Monier-Williams, Grassmann) knew each other personally.


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