Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview
Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview
Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview
Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
<strong>Hele</strong>-<strong>Shaw</strong>’s inventions<br />
Two greatest inventions: Stream-line Flow Methods<br />
(1896-1900) and Automatic Variable-Pitch Propeller<br />
(1924), jointly with T. Beacham. Apart form these two:<br />
• Earliest original work (1881): the measurement of wind<br />
velocity (Tay Bridge disaster, 28 December 1879);<br />
Invention of a new integrating anemometer. BIRS, Canada, July 2007 – p. 13