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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse

1822 - 1883

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Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse (9 October 1822, in Vienne, Isère – 22 May 1883) was a French civil engineer who specialized in the design and use of hydraulic motors. Bresse graduated from the École Polytechnique in 1843 and received his formal education in engineering at the École des Ponts et Chaussées. He returned to the École des Ponts et Chaussées in 1848 as an instructor for applied mechanics courses and in 1853 gained his professorship in applied mechanics, after which he taught at the school until his death in 1883. His name is one of the 72 names inscribed on the Eiffel Tower. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse is the 192nd most popular engineer (down from 180th in 2019), the 3,417th most popular biography from France (down from 3,144th in 2019) and the 30th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 192 out of 389. Before him are Agustín de Betancourt, Genichi Taguchi, Eduard Totleben, Louis Dollo, Jorge Chávez, and Marc Isambard Brunel. After him are Joseph Strauss, Alexey Sudayev, Sergei Tumansky, Philippe LeBon, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Alexander Lodygin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 50. Before him are Jules Antoine Lissajous, Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Adolf Kussmaul, Albrecht Ritschl, Korla Awgust Kocor, and August Heinrich Petermann. After him are Jakob Dubs, Luis Sáenz Peña, Victor Massé, Mathew Brady, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Charles Frédéric Girard. Among people deceased in 1883, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 51. Before him are Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Ciprian Porumbescu, Heinrich von Ferstel, Louis-François-Clement Breguet, Edward Sabine, and Auguste Clésinger. After him are Butrus al-Bustani, Alexander H. Stephens, Dục Đức, Hiệp Hòa, Francesco de Sanctis, and Joachim Barrande.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 3,417 out of 6,770. Before him are Bernard Stiegler (1952), Léon-Paul Fargue (1876), Edwige Feuillère (1907), Jacques Hamel (1930), François-Hubert Drouais (1727), and Albert Batteux (1919). After him are Frederick IV, Duke of Lorraine (1282), Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780), Jacques Labillardière (1755), Gustave Le Gray (1820), Antoine Furetière (1619), and Roland Dumas (1922).

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Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 30. Before him are Gérard Larrousse (1940), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), Louis Dollo (1857), Jorge Chávez (1887), and Marc Isambard Brunel (1769). After him are Philippe LeBon (1767), Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont (1798), François Hennebique (1842), Adolphe Alphand (1817), Arthur Morin (1795), and Evgeny Paton (1870).

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