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]

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

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