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Jean Aubert (engineer)
Summary
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, (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 and the Fonserannes water slopes.
Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.
1913 - École Polytechnique. Soon left for service in First world war. Returned in 1919.
1920-1922 - École nationale des ponts et chaussées.
University of Paris (Bachelor of law).
1922-1932 - Engineer in charge of the navigation works in Paris.
1932-1961 - Professor in the Chair of Internal Navigation at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées. (National school of Bridges and Roads)
1933-1945 - General manager and later chairman of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.
1945-1953 - Chairman of the electricity board of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français
1949-1967 - Chairman of the Rhine Navigation Company
years unknown - Chairman of the Société de Construction des Batignolles.
years unknown - President, Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France.
years unknown - Inspecteur Général des Ponts et Chaussées
1966-unknown - Consulting engineer and honorary chairman of Spie Batignolles.
Chairman of several other companies.
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.
His article Philosophie de la pente d'eau appeared in the journal Travaux in 1984 when he was 90 years old.
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.
Croix de Guerre in 1916.
Académie des Sciences: Prix Pierson-Perrim 1922.
Awarded the Caméré prize in 1934 by the Académie des Sciences for a new type of movable dam.
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