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Jun 1980
Some Paradoxes in the History of Hydraulics
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Volume 106, Issue 6
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Successive instances in the development of hydraulics are cited in which conditions were not as they are generally assumed to have been. Emphasis is laid upon problems of fluid resistance, beginning with Nature's abhorrence of a vacuum at the time of Aristotle and extending to the relative-roughness diagrams of the very recent past.
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Journal of the Hydraulics Division
Volume 106 • Issue 6 • June 1980
Pages: 1077 - 1084
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© 1980 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Hunter Rouse, M.ASCE
Carver Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa; also Visiting Prof., Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, Colo.
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