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Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cheussees
Society: ASCE Main Category: Civil Sub Category: Education Era: 1700-1749 DateCreated: 1747 Marne-la-Vallée Paris State: Ile-de-France Zip: Country: France Website: http://www.asce.org/project/ecole-nationale-des-ponts-et-chaussees/ Creator: Trudaine, Daniel-Charles

Inventions credited to the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and its graduates include: prestressed concrete, lighting gas, and the optical lens. The school and its graduates also have been central to research in the diffraction of light, the applications of concrete, and the measurement of the strength of materials.

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1988
Image Credit: Courtesy Wikicommons/MagnusTheGreat (CC BY-SA 3.0) Image Caption: Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cheussees Era_date_from: 1747
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Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Cheussees

Inventions credited to the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees and its graduates include: prestressed concrete, lighting gas, and the optical lens. The school and its graduates also have been central to research in the diffraction of light, the applications of concrete, and the…

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