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Frédéric Reech

French engineer

PersonDied aged 78humanQ16636025

Also known as Ferdinand Reech · Friedrich Reech

Born: September 9, 1805
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Died: May 6, 1884
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Birthplace: Lampertsloch
Place of death: Lorient
Citizenship: France
Occupation: military engineer
Positions held: Inspecteur général du Génie maritime(since 1869)
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, director(since 1857)
Education: École polytechnique

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Frédéric Reech was a French mathematician, naval engineer and professor who made contributions to thermodynamics and hydraulics. He was among the first to examine the effect of scaling of models of ships, noting the proportionality with the speed of a fluid and the inverse of the square root of its length as a law of comparison in a little-known work in 1831 which is sometimes called the Reech-Froude number. He published a number of treatises in physics including Théorie des machines motrices (1869).

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Sex or gender: male
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Given name: Frédéric
Place of burial: Lampertsloch
Awards: Commander of the Legion of Honour(1857)
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