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...

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...

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 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...

Physics of Music, London, 1944, ²2007, p. 53-54. Gaspard de Prony, Instruction élémentaire sur les moyens de calculer les intervalles musicaux, Paris, 1832...

called Tables du Cadastre, was constructed under the direction of Gaspard de Prony, by an original computation, under the auspices of the French republican...

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...

politician Gaspard de Prony (1755–1839), French mathematician and engineer Gaspard Rigaud (1661–1705), French painter and portraitist Gaspard Rinaldi (1909–1978)...

construction 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...

hydraulic radius. However, Chézy's formula was lost until 1800, when Gaspard de Prony (a former student of his) published an account describing his results...