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    2018 in Brazil. The company was established in 1853 by Joseph Vicat (1821–1902), son of Louis Vicat, who invented artificial cement in 1817. His cement plant...
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    invented the Vicat needle that is still in use for determining the setting time of concretes and cements. His son Joseph Vicat founded Vicat Cement, which...
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    statue. This was destroyed but the Musée dauphinois has a model. Louis-Joseph Vicat - 1855. Bust. At the Museum of Grenoble. Monument to General Marchand...
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    Rallet, Emile Baudrand, and Napoleon Nayral join Joseph Vicat (1821–1902) to capitalize cements Vicat, Rallet supplying 25 percent of the capital. Blind...
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    Also missing are Antoine Chézy, who was less famous;[citation needed] Joseph Valentin Boussinesq, who was early in his career at the time; and mathematician...
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    Jacques-Joseph Champollion-Figeac and his wife Zoé Berriat. The city is the cradle of the French company Vicat, founded by Joseph Vicat (son of Louis Vicat)...
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    King's College London from 1904 and in 1910, with Rex Vicat Cole, he founded the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art later renamed simply the "Byam Shaw...
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  • (former President of the French Republic) Bernardin de Saint-Pierre Louis Vicat Jacques Villiers François Philippe Voisin Michel Virlogeux Jean Tirole (Nobel...
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    reinforced decks in future structures such as the Brooklyn Bridge. Louis Vicat reported in 1853 on the problems with the anchorages, and all similar bridges...
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    Vinci, Cachin, Palladio, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Bramante, Vauban, Vicat held their genius due to unobserved reasons and causes to which we give...
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    by prominent artists such as Sir Frank Dicksee, William Leader, George Vicat Cole and Frank Holl. During the Second World War, the house was a Red Cross...
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    cement of the kind invented 7 years later by the French engineer Louis Vicat. Vicat's cement is an artificial hydraulic lime, and is considered the "principal...
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  • lifting into place, but Chaley's system, inspired by the ideas of Louis Vicat, allowed considerably longer cables to be erected at less cost. He built...
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    Reginald Rex Vicat Cole (1870–1940) was an English landscape painter, and founded a School of Painting together with Byam Shaw. The Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School...
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    French civil engineer Louis Vicat in the 1830s from the older system of water limes and feebly, moderately and eminently. Vicat published his work following...
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    same principle was identified by Frenchman Louis Vicat in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Vicat went on to devise a method of combining chalk...
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  • William H. Illingworth, American photographer (born 1844) April 6 – George Vicat Cole, English painter (born 1833) April 18 – Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz,...
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    Milton Hans (His Nephew) – Effie Mason Alice (Rip's Little Daughter) – Alice Vicat Tom Tit (Bugler to Rowley's Company) – Rose Moncrieff Leedle Jan (Katrina's...
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  • in French with transcript)". Docplayer.fr. Retrieved 30 December 2019. "Joseph Louis François Bertrand". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive. "Biot...
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  • by Louis Vicat. Hairdryer in 1879 by Alexandre Godefroy. Modern Dry cleaning in 1855 by Jean Baptiste Jolly. Reinforced concrete by Joseph Monier in...
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    number of crew from Merseyside is understated; for example, Chief Engineer Joseph Bell and Chief Steward Andrew Latimer lived with their families in the Liverpool...
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  • C1-S-D1 4,690 350 Jul-44 Breakwater at Powell River BC 12 245774 L. J. Vicat C1-S-D1 4,690 350 Jul-44 Breakwater at Powell River BC 13 246010 Robert...
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  • Belgrand, Biot, Cauchy, Coriolis, Dupuit, Fresnel, Gay-Lussac, Navier, Vicat) took part in the reconstruction of the French road network that had not...
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    "Brinkwells", a house near Fittleworth in Sussex, from the painter Rex Vicat Cole. There Elgar recovered his strength and, in 1918 and 1919, he produced...
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  • cricket umpire Renee Cole (born 1971), American beauty pageant contestant Rex Vicat Cole (1870–1940), British artist R. Guy Cole Jr. (born 1951), American judge...
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    (another?) process, similar to Vicat's, producing what he called "British cement". Portland cement, patented in 1824 by Joseph Aspdin, was called so because...
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  • 31 March - Louis Vicat 20 April - Marc Seguin 9 July - Princess Sophie Hélène Béatrice of France 10 July - John Baptiste Henri Joseph Desmazières 31 August...
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    mortars for sealing the voussoirs of vaults. In 1817, the Frenchman Louis Vicat discovered the principle of hydraulicity in lime, related to the proportion...
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    George Vicat Cole 1880 Henry Hugh Armstead 1880 John Loughborough Pearson 1880 William Burges 1881 Edwin Long 1881 Walter William Ouless 1881 Joseph Edgar...
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    together with water, to produce a slurry, containing 20–50% water. Both Louis Vicat and James Frost used this technique in the early 19th century, and it remained...
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