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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Prony Bay or Baie de Prony is a bay of the southern end of New Caledonia. A number of small streams flow into the bay, including the Rivière Bleue and...

the coefficient of the Prony series. So, if one has creep data, it is not easy to get the coefficients of the (relaxation) Prony series, which are needed...

However, it was not until 1824 that a committee of the Académie (composed of Prony, Dupin, and Girard) reported favorably on Burdin's memo. Benoit Fourneyron...

resolution and can process shorter signals compared to the Fourier transform. Prony's method can be used to estimate phases, amplitudes, initial phases and decays...

large nickel mine in the south of New Caledonia, near the township of Yaté, Prony Bay, in the South Province. It was owned by the Brazilian company Vale,...

Prony was a French Navy corvette warship during the American Civil War that ran aground and was lost off Ocracoke Inlet, North Carolina. It proved impossible...

rounded to 1/301 or to 1/300 octave. Early in the 19th century, Gaspard de Prony proposed a logarithmic unit of base 2 12 {\displaystyle {\sqrt[{12}]{2}}}...

(among whom Lebon, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Pierre-Simon Girard, Riche de Prony, Méchain and Brémontier), initially taught themselves geometry, algebra...

Prony (a former student of his) published an account describing his results. It is likely that Weisbach was aware of Chézy's formula through Prony's publications...

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 Highways...

premises have been rented at 14 rue de Prony since 2004. On 16 March 2009, WOAH purchased a large part of the 14 rue de Prony building, adjoining its headquarters...

James Watt invention of the late 18th century), and later by means of a Prony brake connected to the engine's output shaft. Modern dynamometers use any...

of Paris, France, at the junction of the Boulevard de Courcelles, Rue de Prony and Rue Georges Berger. At the main entrance is a rotunda. The park covers...

FRESNEL Augustin-Jean Fresnel civil engineer and physicist SE04 DE PRONY Gaspard de Prony engineer SE05 VICAT Louis Vicat engineer SE06 EBELMEN Jacques-Joseph...

"brake horsepower" refers to a historical method of measuring torque (see Prony brake). The brake-specific fuel consumption is given by, BSFC = r P {\displaystyle...

and 457 women relegated to "the News", especially to the Isle of Pines, Prony or the Camp de la Ouaménie in Boulouparis. Supervision was carried out by...

stalled de Prony project, and lobbying for the support of the Royal Society. In works of the 1820s and 1830s, Babbage referred in detail to de Prony's project...

Older, more empirical approaches are the Hazen–Williams equation and the Prony equation. For relatively short pipe systems, with a relatively large number...

Street, London for an improved weighing machine. Gaspard de Prony invented the de Prony brake in 1821. Macneill's road indicator was invented by John...

politics of the Dijon city government. During this period he modified the Prony equation for calculating head loss due to friction, which after further...

weight of water (e.g., 9810 N/m3 at 4 deg C) Darcy–Weisbach equation and Prony equation for alternatives Fluid dynamics Friction Minor losses in pipe flow...

serpentinisation. The Lost City vent field shares a number of characteristics with the Prony Bay vent field near New Caledonia in the Pacific Ocean. Both are locations...

2021, a part of Vale's nickel business was sold "to a consortium called Prony, which includes Swiss commodity trader Trafigura". Provincial authorities...

Wilberforce, English philanthropist and politician (b. 1759) 1839 – Gaspard de Prony, French mathematician and engineer (b. 1755) 1844 – Franz Xaver Wolfgang...

Yolande Moreau as la comtesse d'Artelles Michael Lonsdale as le vicomte de Prony Anne Parillaud as Mme de Solcy Jean-Philippe Tessé as le vicomte de Mareuil...