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août 2019
École polytechnique fédérale de Zurich (ETHZ) - ETH Hönggerberg
Grosses Hörsaal - gebaüde der Physik HPH (A.H Steiner, 1968-1973)
A candlelit vigil was held at the BC Legislature buildings to honour the memory of 14 female engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
mai 2018
Torino, quartiere Crocetta, corso Duca degli Abruzzi, Politecnico di Torino (Giovanni Muzio, 1950-59)
Commencement ceremony class of 2025 Bachelor BX 25
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
Incorporation de la promotion 2025 pour les élèves de l'Ecole polytechnique / Cycle ingénieur X25
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
A gunman confronts 60 engineering students during their class at l'École Polytechnique in Montreal on Dec. 6, 1989. He separates the men from the women and tells the men to leave the classroom, threatening them with his .22-calibre rifle. The enraged man begins a shooting rampage that spreads to three floors and several classrooms, jumping from desk to desk while female students cower below. He roams the corridors yelling, "I want women."
Before opening fire in the engineering class, he calls the women "une gang de féministes" and says "J'haïs les féministes [I hate feminists]." One person pleads that they are not feminists, just students taking engineering. But the gunman doesn't listen. He shoots the women and then kills himself. Parents of the Polytechnique students wait outside the school crying and wonder if their daughters are among the 14 dead tonight.
CBC Archives
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My university has a memorial set up for the 14 females killed. On Dec the 6th some one added one rose for each person.
Gwénaëlle Hamon chercheuse au LPICM
Réalisation de cellules solaires en Si et en matériaux III-V dans le cadre du projet IMPETUS, collaboration entre le LPICM, le III-V Lab, Total et le GeePs
Rolex Learning Center EFPL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - architects SANAA - Sejima and Nishizawa -
The Rolex Learning Center will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public. Spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq metres, it provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal ‘patios’, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.
Commencement ceremony class of 2025 Bachelor BX 25
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
Incorporation de la promotion 2025 pour les élèves de l'Ecole polytechnique / Cycle ingénieur X25
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
A candlelit vigil was held at the BC Legislature buildings to honour the memory of 14 female engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
A candlelit vigil was held at the BC Legislature buildings to honour the memory of 14 female engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we observe a moment of silence to honour the 14 female students and staff who lost their lives 28 years ago at École Polytechnique in Montreal, simply because they were women. We stand resolute and united in our commitment to take action to end all forms of violence against women.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017PREM0131-002021
Laboratory of Photonics and Quantum Measurements
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Taken at the Rolex Learning Center, on the campus of the "Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne" (EPFL), Lausanne.
Project: Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Location: Miami, Florida
Architect: Dominique Perrault
GKD Metal Fabric: Custom Escale
Project Type: Educational Institutions
Description: The enlargement of The Institute for Mechanical Engineering at EPFL in Lausanne Switzerland is yet another work of art by Perrault. The exterior is cladded by stationary, moveable and motorized panels of custom Escale mesh in natural anodized aluminum. Complete solar control for light, transparency and thermal needs is adjustable and adaptable for the seasons and even the day or time. Sun and light play off of the Escale surfaces is ever-changing.
Blog Post: Three-Dimensional Iconic University Façade Features Movable Mesh Panels
L'ORE : Le BDE des élèves du Bachelor de l'Ecole polytechnique
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
DAVOS/SWITZERLAND, 26JAN13 - Patrick Aebischer, President, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Global Agenda Council on the Future of Universities is seen during the Session 'The Global Science Outlook' at the Annual Meeting 2013 of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, January 26, 2013..
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Copyright by World Economic Forum.
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swiss-image.ch/Photo Urs Jaudas
Trecho dos 300 degraus (além de uma rampa) que separam a Ecole Polytechnique da estação do RER B de Lozère.
02/11/07.
A candlelit vigil was held at the BC Legislature buildings to honour the memory of 14 female engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
A candlelit vigil was held at the BC Legislature buildings to honour the memory of 14 female engineering students and staff who were murdered at École Polytechnique in Montreal in 1989.
Commencement ceremony class of 2025 Bachelor BX 25
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
Sarah Kenderdine, Director, Lab for Experimental Museology, ArtLab, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland; Cultural Leader speaking during the session: A History of China Explained: Confucianism at the World Economic Forum - Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Tianjin, People's Republic of China 2018.Copyright by World Economic Forum / Sikarin Thanachaiary
DALIAN/CHINA, 10SEPT09 - Catherine Beaudry, Associate Professor, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada, speaks during the Young Scientists session at The World Economic Forum Annual Meeting of the New Champions in Dalian, China 10-12 September 2009.
Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org/Liu Bowen)
On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we observe a moment of silence to honour the 14 female students and staff who lost their lives 28 years ago at École Polytechnique in Montreal, simply because they were women. We stand resolute and united in our commitment to take action to end all forms of violence against women.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017PREM0131-002021
Executive master de l'Ecole polytechnique à berkeley Crédit photographique : © École polytechnique - J.Barande
On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we observe a moment of silence to honour the 14 female students and staff who lost their lives 28 years ago at École Polytechnique in Montreal, simply because they were women. We stand resolute and united in our commitment to take action to end all forms of violence against women.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017PREM0131-002021
To recognize the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada (Sunday, Dec 6), members of the UFV community joined together for a short ceremony at the Student Union Building on the Abbotsford campus.
In addition to honouring the 14 young women at l’École Polytechnique de Montréal who lost their lives in 1989, the gathering held a moment of silence for all women who are victims of gender-based violence. Student speaker, Sukhi Brar, pointed out the role that education and awareness can play in ending senseless violence in our world.
Rolex Learning Center EFPL - Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - architects SANAA - Sejima and Nishizawa -
The Rolex Learning Center will function as a laboratory for learning, a library with 500,000 volumes and an international cultural hub for EPFL, open to both students and the public. Spread over one single fluid space of 20,000 sq metres, it provides a seamless network of services, libraries, information gathering, social spaces, spaces to study, restaurants, cafes and beautiful outdoor spaces. It is a highly innovative building, with gentle slopes and terraces, undulating around a series of internal ‘patios’, with almost invisible supports for its complex curving roof, which required completely new methods of construction.
L'ORE : Le BDE des élèves du Bachelor de l'Ecole polytechnique
© Ecole polytechnique / Institut Polytechnique de Paris / Jérémy Barande
On the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we observe a moment of silence to honour the 14 female students and staff who lost their lives 28 years ago at École Polytechnique in Montreal, simply because they were women. We stand resolute and united in our commitment to take action to end all forms of violence against women.
Learn more: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2017PREM0131-002021
The Postcard
A postally unused carte postale published by Lévy et Neurdein of Paris.
Ferdinand Ferber
Louis Ferdinand Ferber, who was born on the 8th. February 1862, was a French Army officer who played an important role in the development of aviation during the early 1900's.
His early recognition and publicizing of the work of the Wright Brothers was a major influence on the development of aviation in Europe.
Ferdinand Ferber - The Early Years
Born in Lyon in 1862, Ferdinand studied at the École Polytechnique before joining the Army, eventually becoming an instructor the School of Applied Artillery at Fontainebleau in 1897.
It was here that he came across the work of Otto Lilienthal, through reading about his work in an article in the Illustrierte Zeitung.
Aviation Experiments
After experimenting with models, Ferber constructed his first full-sized unmanned glider, which had a lozenge-shaped wing about 8 m (26 ft) across. He unsuccessfully attempted to fly it from a launching tower at his family's estate in Rue in Switzerland in August 1898.
He then constructed a similar but smaller second machine, which he attempted to fly both as a kite and by towing it behind a horse, also without much success.
In early 1901 Ferber was transferred from Fontainebleu to Nice, where he was placed in command of the 17th. Alpine Battery of the 19th. Regiment. Here he continued his experiments: his third attempt was more closely modelled on the pattern of Lillienthal's gliders, and was Ferber's first attempt at building a man-carrying glider.
Trials were made at Saint-Étienne-de-Tinée, but the wing area proved insufficient for the purpose, and so a fourth, larger, glider was constructed.
Contact With Chanute
In 1901 Ferber became aware of the aeronautical experiments of Octave Chanute, a French-born American civil engineer. Ferber wrote to Chanute, and through him learnt of the experiments of the Wright Brothers, receiving a copy of Wilbur Wright's paper "Some Aeronautical Experiments" which had been published in the Journal of the Western Society of Engineers in December 1901.
Ferber then built his fifth aircraft, based on photographs of the Wrights' 1901 glider.
Ferdinand's aircraft resembled the Wright glider in being a two-bay biplane with a forward elevator, but the resemblance ended there. As with Ferber's previous aircraft, the construction was crude in the extreme, the wings consisting merely of a simple framework of bamboo loosely covered with fabric, entirely lacking the ribs which formed the wings of the Wright glider into a lift-giving aerofoil section.
Moreover, there was no attempt at lateral control. The connection between lateral and directional control was the key discovery of the Wright Brothers, and although their 1901 glider lacked a rudder, the use of wing warping was clearly described in the paper by Wilbur Wright.
Ferber's experiments with his aircraft were encouraging, and an account of his work written by Ferber under his pseudonym "de Rue" was published in the February 1903 issue of l'Aérophile.
Ferber did not attend Chanute's lecture to the Aero Club de France in April 1903, but after hearing about it he wrote to Ernest Archdeacon, one of the founder members of the Aero Club.
He asked Archdeacon to use his influence to get the Aero Club to announce a prize for a glider flight, and contained the exhortation Il ne faut pas laisser l'aéroplane s'achever en Amérique ("The aeroplane must not be allowed to reach successful achievement in America").
His suggestion was enthusiastically endorsed by Archdeacon, who included an extract from Ferber's letter in his account of Chanute's lecture published in La Locomotion on 11 April.
Ferber's Later Experiments
Ferber then built another aircraft that was similar to his 1902 glider. It differed principally in having a pair of triangular rudders mounted on the aft outboard interplane struts. This aircraft was then fitted with a 6 hp (4 kW) Buchet engine, driving a pair of coaxially mounted propellers, in which form it was called the Type V-bis.
Between September 1903 and October 1904 a number of attempts at flight were made, and he also constructed a tall latticework tower supporting a long counterbalanced revolving arm from which the aircraft was suspended. Ferber wrote that:
"Trials of this machine were completely
useless, but they drew public attention
to aviation".
In April 1904 Ferber assisted Ernest Archdeacon with the trials of his Wright-derived glider at Berck-sur-Mer. Shortly after this, Charles Renard, commander of the French Army balloon school at Chalais-Meudon, invited Ferber to join this establishment, and Ferdinand took up this new post in early May 1904.
He also constructed another aircraft, the Type VI, notable for its use of a rear-mounted horizontal stabiliser and also featuring dihedral in an attempt to obtain lateral stability.
In June 1905 Ferber wrote to the Wright Brothers offering to buy one of their machines. The Wrights were unwilling to do this but their reply, dated the 9th. October 1905, detailed the flights they had recently made, and so Ferber was the first European to learn of these achievements.
After the death of Renard in April 1905, Ferber's relationship with the authorities at Chalais-Meudon deteriorated. In June 1906 he asked for three years' leave in order to work at the Antoinette company.
Permission was granted in August 1906, and he was also allowed to continue his experiments at Chalais-Meudon. In 1906 Ferber built his aeroplane type VIII, fitted with a 24 hp Antoinette engine. When parked outside a hangar, the aircraft was destroyed by a storm in November. Rebuilt as type IX, it was belatedly but successfully tested in July 1908 at Issy-les-Moulineaux near Paris.
In 1908, Ferber founded the Ligue Nationale Aérienne with the help of the well-known physiologist René Quinton. Quinton was a member of a Parisian group of literary personalities called the "Forty-five," who honored achievements in literature, sciences and arts.
In May 1908 Ferber addressed the group at Quinton's suggestion, and after receiving a standing ovation for his accomplishments in aviation, Quinton was inspired to establish a 10,000 franc prize for the first person to fly for 5 minutes with engine stopped and without losing more than 50 metres altitude. In May 1909 the Ligue opened a flying school at Juvisy, with Ferber as its chief instructor.
The Death of Capitaine Ferber
Captain Ferber was killed at the age of 47 on the 22nd. September 1909 at a flying meeting in Boulogne, when, attempting a turn at low altitude in a Voisin biplane, one wing struck the ground.
Ferdinand was only the third victim of an aeroplane accident after Thomas Selfridge and Eugène Lefebvre.
He was Laid to rest at the Cemetery of Loyasse in Lyon.
In June 1910, the French Minister of War announced that one of their newly ordered Zodiac dirigibles was to be named Capitaine Ferber, and a memorial in the form of monolith bearing a bronze flying eagle was erected at Boulogne.
Gaston Combebiac wrote that Ferber ought to be considered a member of the Quaternion Society when he contributed a biographical note to the Society's Bulletin:
"After all, since his intuition, at once mathematical
and realistic, having not failed to recognize the
advantages presented by the use of vector calculus
for certain physical applications of mathematics, we
must rank him among the members of our Association."
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Boulogne-sur-Mer is a coastal city in Northern France. It is a sub-prefecture of the département of Pas-de-Calais.
Boulogne lies on the Côte d'Opale, a touristic stretch of French coast on the English Channel between Calais and Normandy.
Boulogne is its département's second-largest city after Calais, and the 60th.-largest in France. It is also the country's largest fishing port, specialising in herring.
Boulogne in the Great War
During the First World War, Boulogne was the arrival port for the first unit of the British Expeditionary Force to land in France, and for many others thereafter.
Boulogne was one of the three base ports most extensively used by the Commonwealth armies on the Western Front throughout the First World War.
It was closed and cleared on the 27th. August 1914 when the Allies were forced to fall back ahead of the German advance, but was opened again in October, and from that month to the end of the war, Boulogne and Wimereux formed one of the chief hospital areas.
Until June 1918, the dead from the hospitals at Boulogne itself were buried in the Cimetière de L'Est, one of the town's cemeteries, the Commonwealth graves forming a long, narrow strip along the right hand edge of the cemetery.
In the spring of 1918, it was found that space was running short in the Eastern Cemetery in spite of repeated extensions to the south, and the site of a new cemetery at Terlincthun was chosen.
To see a photograph of the cemetery, please search for the tag 45TBC33
Boulogne in World War II
In World War II, on the 15th. June 1944, 297 aircraft (155 Avro Lancasters, 130 Handley Page Halifaxes, and 12 De Havilland Mosquitos) of the Royal Air Force bombed Boulogne harbour to suppress German naval activity following D-Day.
Some of the Lancasters carried Tallboy bombs, and as a result, the harbour and the surrounding area were completely destroyed.
In August 1944 the town was declared a "fortress" by Adolf Hitler, but it succumbed to assault and liberation by the 3rd. Canadian Infantry Division in September. In one incident, a French civilian guided the Canadians to a "secret passage" leading into the walled old town and by-passing the German defenders.
Reconstruction of Boulogne After World War II
To replace the destroyed urban infrastructure, affordable housing and public facility projects in functional, brutalist building styles were carried out in the 1950's and 60's.