Jean Aubert (engineer)

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]

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

Education

Career

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 without the use of locks.[1]

Awards

Principle works

Further reading

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

References

  1. 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. Ian McNeil (June 2002). An Encyclopaedia of the history of technology. ISBN 9780203192115.
  4. 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.
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