Count François Marie Guyonneau de Pambour (1795 – 19 February 1878) was a French nobleman and Army engineer who was among the first to examine theoretical aspects of steam engines.
Count de Pambour was born in Noyon and joined the army after training at the École Polytechnique (1813-1815). He is best known for his Théorie de la machine à vapeur (1839) and Traité théorique et pratique des machines locomotives (1835) which were translated widely. Although an engineer, his work was more theoretical with examination of the mathematical and physical bases.[1] He was never elected to the French Academy of Sciences (despite being proposed thrice), possibly due to differences with Jean-Victor Poncelet and Arthur Jules Morin who had used a coefficient of friction while De Pambour used a term that covered operating conditions.[2][3] De Pambour clashed with Poncelet and he was not included in biographies published in the centenary of the École Polytechnique. De Pambour's work was improved by others including Émile Clapeyron and made obsolete after the development of the Clausius-Rankine cycle.[4][5]
References edit
- ^ Kerker, Milton (1960). "Sadi Carnot and the Steam Engine Engineers". Isis. 51 (3): 257–270. doi:10.1086/348909. ISSN 0021-1753. S2CID 144719098.
- ^ Thurston, Robert H. (1888). "On the distribution of internal friction of engines". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 126 (5): 370–398. doi:10.1016/S0016-0032(88)90151-2.
- ^ Cardwell, D.S.L. (1977). "The Thirteenth Dickinson Memorial Lecture: Science and the Steam Engine in the Early Nineteenth Century reconsidered". Transactions of the Newcomen Society. 49 (1): 111–120. doi:10.1179/tns.1977.008. ISSN 0372-0187.
- ^ Kroes, Peter (1992), "On the Role of Design in Engineering Theories; Pambour's Theory of the Steam Engine", in Kroes, Peter; Bakker, Martijn (eds.), Technological Development and Science in the Industrial Age, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 144, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 69–98, doi:10.1007/978-94-015-8010-6_4, ISBN 978-90-481-4186-9
- ^ Thurston, Robert H. (1884). "On the development of the theory of the steam engine and its application. An historical outline sketch". Journal of the Franklin Institute. 118 (4): 241–262. doi:10.1016/0016-0032(84)90256-4.
External links edit
- Theorie de la machine à vapeur ouvrage (1839)
- The Theory of the Steam Engine (1839, English translation)
- Traité théorique et pratique des machines locomotives (1835)
- A Practical Treatise on Locomotive Engines Upon Railways (1836, English translation)