Jean Aubert (engineer)

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Jean Aubert
Born2 July 1894
Paris, France
Died25 November 1984
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Education Lycée 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]

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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Further reading

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

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  4. 1 2 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.