Auguste Rateau
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Auguste Rateau (13 October 1863 – 13 January 1930) was an
.Biography
After studies, first at the
École des Mines de Paris, he began his career as a teacher at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne
from 1888 to 1897.
He then embarked on an industrial career exploiting turbines. He manufactured fans for mines, blowers for steel mills, water pumps, and
turbocompressors
installed on nuclear, thermal and industrial sites in France and in some parts of the world.
In 1928 he founded the Association Française de Normalisation, the French national organization for standardization, and served as president.
Rateau was a Commander of the Legion of Honour (Commandeur de l'Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur) and a member of the French Academy of Sciences (Académie des sciences).
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