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Hele-Shaw Flows: Historical Overview

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<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

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