Henri Pitot (French: [ɑ̃ʁi pito]; May 3, 1695 – December 27, 1771) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the pitot tube. In a pitot tube...
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A pitot tube (/ˈpiːtoʊ/ PEE-toh; also pitot probe) measures fluid flow velocity. It was invented by French engineer Henri Pitot in the early 18th century...
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sides have the same total length. It is named after French engineer Henri Pitot. A tangential quadrilateral is usually defined as a convex quadrilateral...
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Pitot is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Henri Pitot (1695–1771), French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the Pitot tube James...
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however, pitot pressure is the stagnation pressure of the flow behind the normal shock ahead of the pitot tube. Pitot pressure is named for Henri Pitot, French...
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therefore is only valid at room temperature and conventional velocities. Henri Pitot discovered that the velocity of a fluid was proportional to the square...
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February 6 – Nicolaus II Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician (died 1726) May 3 – Henri Pitot, Italian-born French engineer (died 1771) August 4 – William Oliver,...
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fallback HEC-RAS – Software for simulating water flow within rivers Henri Pitot – French hydraulic engineer (1695–1771) Hydrology – Science of the movement...
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Pinchbeck Pintsch gas – Julius Pintsch Pitman shorthand – Isaac Pitman Pitot tube – Henri Pitot Plimsoll line – Samuel Plimsoll Prince Rupert's Drop – Prince Rupert...
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(d. 1766) May 3 Pacifico Bizza, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1756) Henri Pitot, French hydraulic engineer (d. 1771) May 6 – Isaac Wilkinson, English...
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