Bartolomé Cayol

Bartolomé Cayol (c. 1800–1877) was a French businessman, engineer, pioneer in the industrial production of the Argentine Republic.[1] He settled in Buenos Aires dedicating himself to the manufacture of cheap kitchens and wood-burning heaters.[2]

Engineer

Bartolomé Cayol
Personal details
Born
Barthélemy Caillol

c. 1800
Toulon, France
Died1877
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Spouse(s)Margarita Kerkis
Occupationentrepreneur
Professionengineer

He was born in Toulon, France, the son of a distinguished Provencal family.[3] He did his elementary studies in his native country, and tertiary in Germany where he graduated as an industrial engineer. For the year 1835, Cayol was established in Buenos Aires,[4] where he opened a factory of iron kitchens.[5]

He had an active participation in the beginning of the industrial activities of Argentina, and was a founding member of Club Industrial of Buenos Aires in 1875.[6]

He was married to Margarita Kerkis, daughter of Thomas Kerkis, born in England, and Zenobia San Vicente, belonging to a Creole family, originally from the Province of Buenos Aires. His son, Carlos Cayol Kerkis was a pioneer of telephony in Argentina. In 1878, together with Fernando Newman, he made the first telephone tests of the country, conducting successful tests from the office of the State Telegraph and the newspaper La Prensa.[7]

References
  1. Historia argentina contemporánea, 1862-1930, Academia Nacional de la Historia (Argentina), 1965
  2. Profundización de los aspectos estéticos de petroglifos y pictografías de la Provincia del Neuquén, Facultad de Turismo, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, 1998, ISBN 9789879776117
  3. Argentina, Capital Federal, Census, 1855, Argentina
  4. Historia, Volume 1, Issues 2-4, Armando Alonso Piñeiro, 1981
  5. La telefonía argentina: su otra historia, Mario Tesler, 1990
  6. La Unión Industrial Argentina, Félix Luna, 2007, ISBN 9789879860311
  7. La Buenos Aires de Gardel, Osvaldo Barsky, Julián Barsky, March 2012, ISBN 9789500738293
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