Presented in clear, non-mathematical language, readily intelligible even to the layman, the book covers all the high points and achievements in hydraulics and hydrodynamics over the centuries. Beginning with the efforts of primitive man and the peoples of ancient Greece, Egypt, and other early societies to cope with prob- lems of water regulation, the authors go on to describe the famous Roman water- supply systems, the developments in machinery and concepts of mechanics in the Middle Ages, and the rise of the experimental method during the Renaissance. They then furnish lucid accounts of all the succeeding chapters of history: post- Renaissance contributions from France and Italy; 17th-century mathematics and Newtonian mechanics; Bernoulli, Euler, and the advent of hydrodynamics; 18th-cen- tury advancements in flow measurement; 19th-century contributions to experimental techniques, such as those of Weisbach, Bazin, and Froude; and the theoretical re- searches of Saint-Venant, Stokes, Boussinesq, Reynolds, and others. The final sections deal with hydraulic trends in the early 20th century, recent progress in fluid mechanics, and an appraisal of the science at mid-century. The text is supplemented by a wealth of original diagrams and drawings and photo- graphs of the great figures of the past and present. Also included is extensive bio- graphical material covering the lives of Archimedes, Ctesibius, Frontinus, da Vnci, Stevin, Castelli, Torricelli, Mariotte, Pascal, Bernoulli, Euler, Newton, Clairaut, d'Alem- bert, Du Buat, etc., and the modern contributors from Freeman and Prandtl to von Karman and Bakhmeteff. The work of these men is here gathered together in one volume to provide hours of interesting reading and an unmatched reference work.
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