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Jean Aubert (engineer)

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Jean Aubert
Born2 July 1894
Paris, France
Died25 November 1984
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, University of Paris (Bachelor of law)[1]
OccupationEngineer
Known forEngineer on river and canal works[1]
Montech water slope

Jean Aubert was a French engineer. In 1961, he used the idea of the German engineer Julius Greve from the last century to describe a pente d'eau (English: water slope), which was a way of moving boats up the gradient of a canal without locks. The design consisted of a sloping channel, through which a wedge of water on which the boat was floating could be pushed up an incline. This concept was used in both the Montech water slope[2] and the Fonserannes water slopes.[1][3]

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Career

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Publications

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  • In 1919 he published La Probabilité dans les tires de guerre and was awarded the Pierson-Perrim prize by the Académie des Sciences in 1922.[1]
  • His article Philosophie de la pente d'eau appeared in the journal Travaux in 1984 when he was 90 years old.[1]
  • In 1961 he published his revolutionary ideas on the pente d'eau, or water slope, which was designed to transfer barges from one level to another without the use of locks.[1]

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Principle works

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Further reading

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David Tew, 1984, Canal Inclines and Lifts, Gloucester: Alan Sutton.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Lance Day; Ian McNeil (September 2003). Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. ISBN 9780203028292.
  2. ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1973). From Sea to Sea. Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780713904710.
  3. ^ a b Ian McNeil (June 2002). An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology. ISBN 9780203192115.
  4. ^ a b Aubert, J. (1965). "Lecture. Joint Meeting. Inland Navigation Today". Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers. 30: 187–192. doi:10.1680/iicep.1965.9574. Retrieved 29 December 2009.