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PRONY, GASPARD CLAIR FRANCOIS MARIE RICHE DE (1755-1839)

PRONY, GASPARD CLAIR See also:
FRANCOIS (1558-1614)
FRANCOIS See also:
MARIE
MARIE RICHE DE (1755-1839) , See also:

French engineer, was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born at Chamelet, in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of the See also:

Rhone, on the 22nd of See also:

JULY

July 1755, and was educated at the Ecole See also:

des Ponts et Chaussees. His Memoire Sur la poussee des voictes published in 1783, in See also:

defence of the principles of See also:

BRIDGE

bridge construction introduced by his See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master J. R. Perronnet, attracted See also:

SPECIAL

special See also:

ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention. The laborious enter-prise of See also:

DRAWING

drawing up the famous Tables du See also:

CADASTRE (a French word from the Late Lat. capitastrum, a register of the poll-tax)

Cadastre was entrusted to his direction in 1792, and in 1794 he was appointed See also:

PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of the mathematical sciences at the Ecole Polytechnique, becoming director at the $See also:

cole des Ponts et Chaussees four years later. He was employed by See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon to superintend the See also:

ENGINEERING

engineering operations for protecting the See also:

province of See also:

FERRARA

Ferrara against the inundations of the Po and for draining and ,improving the Pontine Marshes. After the Restoration he was likewise engaged in regulating the course of the Rhone, and in several other important See also:

WORKS

works. He was made a See also:

baron in 1828, and a peer in 1835. He died at See also:

ASNIERES

Asnieres (See also:

Seine) on the 29th of July 1839. For the " Prony See also:

BRAKE

Brake " see See also:

DYNAMOMETER (Gr. Suva u , strength, and OTpov, a measure)

DYNAMOMETER.

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