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Coulomb, Charles A. (1736 - 1806)
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French physicist; Coulomb delivered fundamental contributions to mechanics and strength of materials
Coulomb is considered the founder of the science of structural engineering. He realized that friction is both a law of nature, as well as a technical characteristic of structures and machines. With its engineering-based approach, the absorption characteristics found empirically in his models and the additional analytical solution methods by experimental studies he created the technology to make scientific equivalent of "smooth" mechanics of Lagrange. Coulomb set a higher mathematics for solving practical problems of mechanics, freed by this focus on practical issues but at the same time of their rigid subordination to math and science. His mechanical knowledge had strong effect on Navier and Poncelet. Coulomb also succeeded in discovering basic laws of electricity and magnetism.
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variant spelling:
Coulomb, Charles A.; ; de; Coulomb, Charles Augustin; Coulomb, Charles Augustin de; Coulomb, C. A.
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Curriculum vitae
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* 14.06.1736
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Angouleme
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born
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1757
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Montpellier
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Member of the "Société des Sciences"
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1761
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Meziers
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Lieutenant in the "Corps du Genie"
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1761 - ?
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Brest
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Design and construction of fortifications
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1764 - 1772
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Martinique
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Design and construction of fortifications
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1772
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Bouchain
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Design and construction of a fortification
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1777
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Cherbourg
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Design and construction of a fortification
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1779
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Rochefort
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Design and construction of a fortification
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1781
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Paris
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Member of the "Academy of Sciences"
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1792 - 1795
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Blois
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Retreat into private life
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1795
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Paris
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Member of the "Institut de France"
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1801
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Paris
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President of the "Institut de France"
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1802 - 1806
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Paris
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Inspector of Public Education
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† 23.08.1806
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Paris
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died
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Die Herausbildung der technischen Mechanik und ihr Anteil bei der Verwissenschaftlichung des Maschinenwesens, in: Dresdener Beiträge zur Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften
Author: Mauersberger, Klaus
Published: 1980
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Geschichte der Technikwissenschaften
Author: Sonnemann, Rolf Paul Heinz (Ed.); Buchheim, Gisela (Ed.)
Published: 1990
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Coulomb and the evolution of physics and engineering in eighteenth-century France
Author: Gillmor, Charles Stewart
Published: 1971
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Geschichte der mechanischen Prinzipien und ihrer wichtigsten Anwendungen
Author: Szabo, Istvan
Published: 1987
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Technik : eine Geschichte ihrer Probleme
Author: Klemm, Friedrich
Published: 1954
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Die Geschichte der Bauingenieurkunst ; Ein Überblick von der Antike bis in die Neuzeit
Author: Straub, Hans
Published: 1996
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Die Entwicklung der Zahnrad-Technik ; Zahnformen und Tragfähigkeitsberechnungen
Author: Seherr-Thoss, Hans Christoph Graf von
Published: 1965
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Geschichte der Baustatik
Author: Kurrer, Karl-Eugen
Published: 2002
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Coulomb's memoir on statics - an essay in the history of civil engineering
Author: Heyman, Jacques
Published: 1972
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