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| The Flow Hall of Fame | The 19th. Century | ||||||||
| Great Name | Dates | Accomplishment | |||||||
| Robert Manning | |||||||||
| Georg Gabriel Stokes | |||||||||
| Ernst Mach | |||||||||
| Ludwig Boltzmann | |||||||||
| Osborne Reynolds | Reynolds Number | ||||||||
| Samuel Clegg | Invented first gas meter in 1915 | ||||||||
| Moritz Weber | |||||||||
| Herman Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz | 1821-1894 | Developed theory of the rotation of fluids and the motion of vortices | |||||||
| V. Strouhal | Studied vortex shedding from a bluff body; Published results in 1878; Strouhal number | ||||||||
| Lester A. Pelton | 1829-1908 | Invented early turbine flowmeter; Pelton wheel | |||||||
| Edward and James Dakwyne | 1830 | Received a patent on a hydraulic pump using a nutating disc principle | |||||||
| Clemens Herschel | 1842-1930 | Published paper on venturi water meters in 1898 | |||||||
| William Richards | Invented diaphragm-type gas meter that has sliding vanes | ||||||||
| C.W. Siemens | Invented a type of variable area meter; Invented early turbine flomweter | ||||||||
| Theodor van Karman | 1881-1963 | Received a patent on vortex shedding flowmeter | |||||||
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