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ABSTRACT THE late Prof. Auguste Camille Edmond Rateau, whose death was recorded in NATURE of February 8, 1930, held a chair at the School of Mines at St. Étienne for about ten years. When,
in 1897, he resigned this position, he was succeeded by M. Emile Jouquet, who in the _Annales des Mines_ for September 1932 gives a full account of the researches and inventions of his
distinguished predecessor. The son of an architect, Rateau at an early age gave signs of mathematical talent and,when he completed his two years' study at the Ecole Polytechnique, he
passed out at the head of his class. He was twenty-five years of age when in 1888 he was made a professor in the School at St. Etienne, where previously, as M. Jouquet says, Burdin was a
professor arid Fourneyron, “the Watt of the hydraulic turbine”, was a student. Rateau's work was in direct line with theirs and from it came the Rateau mine ventilators, centrifugal
pumps and steam turbines. The impulse steam turbine of Rateau was applied to a French torpedo boat in 1904 and Rateau turbines, as developed by the Ateliers et Chantiers de Bretagne, Nantes,
have recently been fitted in the fastest flotilla leaders in the world. A prominent member of many societies, Rateau was elected a member of the Paris Academy of Sciences in 1919. A
monument to him was unveiled on January 17, 1931, in the grounds of the works of the Societe Rateau at La Courneuve (Seine). Access through your institution Buy or subscribe This is a
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ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE Auguste Rateau, 1863–1930. _Nature_ 131, 650 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131650a0 Download citation * Issue Date: 06 May 1933 * DOI:
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