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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse has received more than 14,613 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse is the 180th most popular engineer (up from 197th in 2019), the 3,143rd most popular biography from France (up from 3,269th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 180 out of 389Before him are Elisa Leonida Zamfirescu, Nikolay Kamov, Vasily Mishin, Gotthilf Hagen, Robert Maillart, and Eugene Stoner. After him are Hugo Eckener, Alfred Neubauer, Giuseppe Colombo, Sergei Tumansky, Michele Besso, and Michel Chevalier.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1822, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 48Before him are Princess Augusta of Cambridge, Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe, Julius von Haast, Jakob Dubs, Jacob Moleschott, and Albrecht Ritschl. After him are Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Apollonie Sabatier, Bernhard Hammer, Dmitry Grigorovich, Luis Sáenz Peña, and Frederick Law Olmsted. Among people deceased in 1883, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 47Before him are Napoleon Orda, Seru Epenisa Cakobau, Ciprian Porumbescu, Dục Đức, Auguste Clésinger, and Reinhart Dozy. After him are Hiệp Hòa, Yevfimiy Putyatin, Butrus al-Bustani, Robert Volkmann, Francesco de Sanctis, and Mahmud Nedim Pasha.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 3,143 out of 6,770Before him are Salomon de Brosse (1571), Henri Lebasque (1865), Auguste Barbier (1805), Raymond Sommer (1906), Prince Peter of Greece and Denmark (1908), and Madeleine Lebeau (1923). After him are Antoine III de Gramont (1604), Jean du Bellay (1492), Guillaume Rondelet (1507), Pierre Baillot (1771), Gustave Le Gray (1820), and Charles Estienne (1504).

Among ENGINEERS In France

Among engineers born in France, Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse ranks 27Before him are Gérard Larrousse (1940), Philippe LeBon (1767), Marc Seguin (1786), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Pierre-Paul Riquet (1609), and Louis Charles Breguet (1880). After him are Michel Chevalier (1806), Jorge Chávez (1887), Pierre Charles L'Enfant (1754), Émile Levassor (1843), Alphonse Pénaud (1850), and Evgeny Paton (1870).