A History and Philosophy of Fluid Mechanics

A History and Philosophy of Fluid MechanicsThrough the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion have occupied many of history's greatest minds. In this pioneering account, a distinguished aeronautical scientist presents a history of fluid mechanics focusing on the achievements of the pioneering scientists and thinkers whose inspirations and experiments lay behind the evolution of such disparate devices as irrigation lifts, ocean liners,

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Reprint of an 1875 translation by William and Charles Archer of the original 1867 edition

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Volume Two contains: "Three Predules" (1836)

America's sudden entry into the war required its typically small aircraft "job shops" to convert quickly to assembly-line techniques to meet the urgent demand for fighters and bombers

Theory of Flight contains perhaps the best introduction to the general theory of stability