After graduating he spent a few years as a mining engineer. 그는 몇 년 동안 광산 엔지니어로서 졸업 후 보냈다.
Before his theses were submitted, Bour was already qualified as a mining engineer. 그의 논문을 제출하기 전에, 이미 Bour 광산 엔지니어로서 자격이있다.
From 1825 he spent five years as professor of mining engineering at Liège. 그는 5 년간 1825 리에주에서 채굴 공학 교수로 보냈다에서.
His father, Ernest Balzar Lighthill was a mining engineer who was working in Paris at the time his son was born. 그의 아버지, 어니스트 Balzar Lighthill 파리에서 자신의 아들이 태어난 시간에 일하는 광산 기술자했다.
He was awarded a degree in mining engineering in 1848 and for the next four years he worked at the Kongsberg silver mines. 그는 1848 년에 채굴 공학 학위를 수여 받았습니다 그는 Kongsberg 실버 광산에서 근무 향후 4 년간이다.