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C. Joseph-Martin Cabirol; Eugène Caillaux; Gustave Caillebotte; Gabriel Calloet-Kerbrat; Michel Callon; Carlos Canudas de Wit; Ferdinand Carré; Éric Carreel
Albert Irénée Caquot (French pronunciation: [albɛʁ iʁene kako]; 1 July 1881 – 28 November 1976) was a French engineer.He received the “Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France)” (military honor) and was Grand-croix of the Légion d’Honneur (1951).
Aimé Thomé de Gamond (November 1807 – 1876) was a French engineer and entrepreneur who believed in the feasibility of constructing a Channel Tunnel under the Straits of Dover. However, despite his enthusiasm for such a venture, he died ridiculed and penniless because the project was not in conjunction with the political atmosphere of the ...
Henri Pitot (French: [ɑ̃ʁi pito]; May 3, 1695 – December 27, 1771) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube.. In a pitot tube, the height of the fluid column is proportional to the square of the velocity of the fluid at the depth of the inlet to the pitot tube.
The Corps de l'armement (French pronunciation: [kɔʁ də laʁməmɑ̃]), or Corps des ingénieurs de l'armement [1] ([kɔʁ dez‿ɛ̃ʒenjœʁ də laʁməmɑ̃]) is a Technical Grand Corps of the French State (grand corps de l'Etat [ɡʁɑ̃ kɔʁ də leta]), [2] aimed at providing the French Armed Forces with all appropriate equipment and supervising the French Aerospace & Defence industry.
Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban (May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban (French:), was a French Royal Army officer and engineer who served under Louis XIV. He is generally considered the greatest military engineer of his time, and one of the most important in European military history. [1]
André Coyne (10 February 1891 – 21 July 1960) was a French civil engineer who founded the consulting firm Coyne et Bellier and was President of the International Commission on Large Dams from 1945 to 1953. He designed 70 dams in 14 countries during his lifetime.
Jean Joseph Étienne Lenoir, also known as Jean J. Lenoir (12 January 1822 – 4 August 1900 [1]), was a Belgian-French [2] engineer who developed the internal combustion engine in 1858. Prior designs for such engines were patented as early as 1807 (De Rivaz engine) and 1854 (Barsanti–Matteucci engine).