 | Baron Gaspard Clair François Marie Riche de Prony (22 July 1755 – 29 July 1839) was a French mathematician and engineer, who worked on hydraulics. He... 16 KB (1,857 words) - 05:41, 17 February 2024 |
Prony or de Prony may refer to: Gaspard de Prony (1755–1839), French mathematician and engineer Prony's method, a mathematical method to estimate the... 655 bytes (110 words) - 09:20, 1 July 2021 |
The Prony equation (named after Gaspard de Prony) is a historically important equation in hydraulics, used to calculate the head loss due to friction within... 1 KB (199 words) - 14:37, 22 October 2023 |
 | The Prony brake is a simple device invented by Gaspard de Prony in 1821 to measure the torque produced by an engine. The term "brake horsepower" is one... 3 KB (426 words) - 01:21, 5 May 2024 |
politician Gaspard de Prony (1755–1839), French mathematician and engineer Gaspard Rigaud (1661–1705), French painter and portraitist Gaspard Rinaldi (1909–1978)... 5 KB (660 words) - 08:08, 17 February 2024 |
Cent (music) (section Prony) Physics of Music, London, 1944, ²2007, p. 53-54. Gaspard de Prony, Instruction élémentaire sur les moyens de calculer les intervalles musicaux, Paris, 1832... 23 KB (2,881 words) - 23:30, 4 January 2024 |
 | called Tables du Cadastre, was constructed under the direction of Gaspard de Prony, by an original computation, under the auspices of the French republican... 47 KB (5,460 words) - 18:17, 26 April 2024 |
 | Prony analysis (Prony's method) was developed by Gaspard Riche de Prony in 1795. However, practical use of the method awaited the digital computer. Similar... 6 KB (1,295 words) - 22:29, 31 October 2023 |
 | computation of mathematical tables. The French official initiative by Gaspard de Prony, and its problems of implementation, were familiar to him. After the... 111 KB (12,207 words) - 08:39, 11 May 2024 |
 | acknowledged most of the leading scientists in the field. Henri Philibert Gaspard Darcy is missing; some of his work did not come into wide use until the... 17 KB (616 words) - 03:06, 26 February 2024 |
 | construction of the Amiens canal and the Ourcq canal. He collaborated with Gaspard de Prony on the Dictionnaire des Ponts et Chaussées (Dictionary of Bridges and... 5 KB (422 words) - 06:02, 6 May 2024 |
scope, in particular the tables of Henry Briggs, Adriaan Vlacq and Gaspard de Prony. Alexander John Thompson: Table of the coefficients of Everett's central-difference... 4 KB (438 words) - 17:30, 2 February 2024 |
 | L. Kater was not the first to have this idea. French mathematician Gaspard de Prony first proposed a reversible pendulum in 1800, but his work was not... 27 KB (3,623 words) - 19:42, 18 March 2024 |
 | Fleet Street, London for an improved weighing machine. Gaspard de Prony invented the de Prony brake in 1821. Macneill's road indicator was invented by... 35 KB (4,688 words) - 07:43, 28 April 2024 |
Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1759) 1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) 1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang... 64 KB (6,910 words) - 19:17, 7 April 2024 |
in actuarial science, by Christopher Lewin and Margaret de Valois The work of Gaspard de Prony constructing mathematical tables in revolutionary France... 5 KB (587 words) - 00:31, 18 January 2023 |
July 22 (category CS1 German-language sources (de)) Mikhail Shcherbatov, Russian philosopher and historian (d. 1790) 1755 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (d. 1839) 1784 – Friedrich Bessel... 45 KB (4,641 words) - 23:33, 8 May 2024 |
 | département of Ille-et-Vilaine. At this point Arago interceded with Gaspard de Prony, head of the École des Ponts, who wrote to Louis-Mathieu Molé, head... 199 KB (26,258 words) - 20:20, 19 March 2024 |
 | at École des Ponts et Chaussées where he studied hydraulics under Gaspard de Prony and applied mechanics under Claude-Louis Navier. Returning to America... 6 KB (666 words) - 05:13, 30 April 2023 |
List of French inventions and discoveries (category CS1 German-language sources (de)) polarization filter in 1812. Arithmometer by Thomas de Colmar in 1820. Dynamometer by Gaspard de Prony (de Prony brake) in 1821. Complex analysis and complex... 109 KB (10,613 words) - 22:48, 10 May 2024 |
 | Henry Darcy (redirect from Henri-Philibert-Gaspard Darcy) Henry Philibert Gaspard Darcy (French: [ɑ̃ʁi daʁsi]; 10 June 1803 – 3 January 1858) was a French engineer who made several important contributions to... 8 KB (807 words) - 06:02, 6 May 2024 |
Corps of Bridges, Waters and Forests (category Grands corps de l'État) Claude-Louis Navier Jean Peyrelevade Gaspard de Prony Marie François Sadi Carnot (former President of the French Republic) Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Louis Vicat Jacques... 7 KB (786 words) - 20:25, 12 May 2024 |
 | tables went beyond the tables of Henry Briggs, Adriaan Vlacq, and Gaspard de Prony. Sang was born in Kirkcaldy on 30 January 1805, the son of Jean Nicol... 51 KB (5,898 words) - 17:12, 27 January 2024 |
"Reflections on the Natural History of Eponymy and Scientific Law", Donald deB. Beaver, Social Studies of Science, volume 6, number 1 (February, 1976),... 30 KB (438 words) - 18:40, 13 December 2023 |
mathematics in France in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Gaspard De Prony set up the Bureau du Cadastre and lead the project to compute the great... 8 KB (966 words) - 14:26, 18 December 2023 |
to Gaspard de Prony, whom he showed the invention in 1796. He showcased a hypocycloidal straight-line mechanism at the 2nd Exposition des produits de l'industrie... 10 KB (1,206 words) - 04:56, 5 May 2024 |
hydraulic projects. Under the orders of the emperor, French scientist Gaspard Riche de Prony, second director of the school from 1798 to 1839, adapts the education... 28 KB (3,032 words) - 21:58, 28 April 2024 |
 | theory of running water was greatly advanced by the researches of Gaspard Riche de Prony (1755–1839). From a collection of the best experiments by previous... 42 KB (5,703 words) - 23:52, 15 March 2024 |
 | Oingt (category Plus Beaux Villages de France) the village to the west is the château de Prony, one of whose owners was Gaspard-François-Marie-Riche de Prony (1755-1839), engineer, member (eventually... 7 KB (838 words) - 06:32, 19 January 2023 |
Champ-de-Mars. A practised eye would have recognized Joseph Jérôme, Comte Siméon, Minister, Junior Minister in the Ministry of the Interior; and Gaspard de... 28 KB (4,243 words) - 14:14, 31 October 2023 |