Jean Aubert (engineer)

Jean Aubert
Born(1894-07-02)2 July 1894
Paris, France
Died25 November 1984(1984-11-25) (aged 90)
Paris, France
EducationLycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris, École nationale des ponts et chaussées, University of Paris (Bachelor of law)
OccupationEngineer
Known forEngineer on river and canal works

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 and the Fonserannes water slopes.

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