Jean Aubert (engineer)

Jean Aubert
Born	1894
Died	1984
Nationality	French
Education	Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, University of Paris (Bachelor of law)^[1]
Occupation	Engineer
Known for	Engineer on river and canal works^[1]

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]

1 Education
2 Career
3 Publications
4 Awards
5 Principle works
6 Further reading
7 References

Education

Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris.^[1]
1913 - École Polytechnique. Soon left for service in First world war. Returned in 1919.^[1]
1920-1922 - École nationale des ponts et chaussées.^[1]
University of Paris (Bachelor of law).^[1]

Career

1922-1932 - Engineer in charge of the navigation works in Paris.^[1]
1932-1961 - Professor in the Chair of Internal Navigation at the École nationale des ponts et chaussées. (English: National school of Bridges and Roads) ^[1]
1933-1945 - General manager and later chairman of the Compagnie Nationale du Rhône.^[1]
1945-1953 - Chairman of the electricity board of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer Français
1949-1967 - Chairman of the Rhine Navigation Company ^[1]
years unknown - Chairman of the Sociéte des Constructions des Batignolles.^[1]
years unknown - President, Societe des Ingenieurs Civils de France.^[4]
years unknown - Inspecteur Général des Ponts et Chaussées ^[3]^[4]
1966-unknown - Consulting engineer and honorary chairman of Spie Batignolles.^[1]
Chairman of several other companies.^[1]

Publications

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 with the use of locks.^[1]

Awards

Croix de Guerre in 1916.^[1]
Académie des Sciences: Prix Pierson-Perrim 1922.^[1]
Awarded the Caméré prize in 1934 by the Académie des Sciences for a new type of movable dam.^[1]
Ingénieur Général des Ponts et Chaussées 1951,
Commandeur de la Légion d'honneur 1960.^[1]

Principle works

Construction of the Pont Edouard-Herriort on the Rhône at Lyon.^[1]
Design and construction of the Génissiat dam and Lonzères-Mondragon dam on the Rhône.^[1]
Conception and design of the Denouval dam on the Seine near Andrésy, completed in 1980.^[1]

References

^ ^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. Biographical Dictionary of the History of Technology. http://books.google.com/books?id=qNp3JM35UMoC&pg=PA29&dq=Jean+Aubert+canal&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=Jean%20Aubert%20canal&f=false.
^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1973). From Sea to Sea. Ohio University Press. ISBN 8124-0152-1.
^ ^a ^b Ian McNeil. An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology. http://books.google.com/books?id=uxsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA485&dq=Jean+Aubert+canal&lr=&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Jean%20Aubert%20canal&f=false.
^ ^a ^b "LECTURE. JOINT MEETING. INLAND NAVIGATION TODAY.". http://www.icevirtuallibrary.com/content/article/10.1680/iicep.1965.9574. Retrieved 29 December 2009.

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Date of birth	1894
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Date of death	1984
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