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He was the discoverer of Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his Recherches Experimentales stir le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides applique a l ' Explication de Differens Phenomenes Hydrauliques, translated into English in 1837 by Thomas Tredgold as " Experimental Inquiries Concerning the Principle of the Lateral Communication of a Motion in Fluids ," in Tracts on Hyraulics.
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* Leslie Peltier was a prolific discoverer of comets and well-known observer of variable stars.
The book was very popular, and contributed to an image of the discoverer as a solitary individual who challenged the unknown sea, as triumphant Americans contemplated the dangers and promise of their own wilderness frontier.
But the " Burnt City " of his second stratum, revealed in 1873, with its fortifications and vases, and a hoard of gold, silver and bronze objects, which the discoverer connected with it, began to arouse a curiosity which was destined presently to spread far outside the narrow circle of scholars.
Sir Isaac Newton was probably the discoverer of astigmation ; the position of the astigmatic image lines was determined by Thomas Young ( A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy, 1807 ); and the theory was developed by Allvar Gullstrand.
In 1928, a division of biology was established under the leadership of Thomas Hunt Morgan, the most distinguished biologist in the United States at the time, and discoverer of the role of genes and the chromosome in heredity.
One of the first known hominids, it was nicknamed ' handy man ' by discoverer Louis Leakey due to its association with stone tools.
Perey, however, continuously criticized Hulubei's work until she was credited as the sole discoverer of element 87.
The name for the project was coined by Luther Welsh, one of its earlier searchers and the discoverer of the 29th Mersenne prime.
Commonly cited as the 1773 discoverer of urea, he was not the first to do so.
In March 1938, Sennett was presented with an honorary Academy Award: " for his lasting contribution to the comedy technique of the screen, the basic principles of which are as important today as when they were first put into practice, the Academy presents a Special Award to that master of fun, discoverer of stars, sympathetic, kindly, understanding comedy genius-Mack Sennett.
William Withering ( 17 March 1741 – 6 October 1799 ) was an English botanist, geologist, chemist, physician and the discoverer of digitalis.
This was a higher honour than the knighthood awarded to penicillin's discoverer, Sir Alexander Fleming, and it recognised the monumental work Florey did in making penicillin available in sufficient quantities to save millions of lives in the war, despite Fleming's doubts that this was feasible.
Their discoverer was Eric Vautier of France.
The former was named for the Feast of Saints Peter and Paul, on the day of which the island was discovered ; the latter was probably named for the ship sailed by the islands ' discoverer, Gavriil Pribilof.
The Harpagid Theory was initiated by Charles Fellows, discoverer of the Xanthian Obelisk, and person responsible for the transportation of the Xanthian Marbles from Lycia to the British Museum.
In the course of time the lead enclosing the remains was, from expose and natural decay, so seriously damaged as to endanger its preservation, rendering some repair of it the duty of those interested in the memory of the illustrious discoverer of the circulation of the Blood.
There was some conflict between Neisser and Hansen, Hansen as discoverer of the bacillus and Neisser as identifier of it as the etiological agent.
Behring was the discoverer of diphtheria antitoxin in 1890 and attained a great reputation by that means and by his contributions to the study of immunity.
The asteroid was named by discoverer James B. Gibson after his pet cat, " Mr. Spock ", said feline indeed being named after the Star Trek character.
Antoine Henri Becquerel ( 15 December 1852 – 25 August 1908 ) was a French physicist, Nobel laureate, and the discoverer of radioactivity along with Marie Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie, for which all three won the 1903 Nobel Prize in Physics.
was and Venturi
or Ken Venturi, who had a somewhat shaky 72 but was bound to do better ; ;
The Redmanol corporation manufactured pipes with translucent stems in the 1920s and a series of pipes was manufactured and distributed by the Tar Gard ( later Venturi ) Corporation of San Francisco from 1965-1975.
An interesting variation was Ford's VV ( Variable Venturi ) carburetor, which was essentially a fixed venturi carburetor with one side of the venturi hinged and movable to give a narrow throat at low rpm and a wider throat at high rpm.
Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991.
Venturi was born in Philadelphia to Robert Venturi, Sr. and Vanna ( née Luizi ) Venturi and was raised as a Quaker.
Venturi taught later at the Yale School of Architecture and was a visiting lecturer with Scott Brown in 2003 at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
Freedom Plaza in Washington, D. C. was designed by Venturi in 1980
The most famous of these was a studio in 1968 in which Venturi and Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, led a team of students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip, perhaps the least likely subject for a serious research project imaginable.
* Vanna Venturi House ; Philadelphia ( 1964 ) won the AIA Twenty-five Year Award and was recognized as a " Masterwork of Modern American Architecture " by the United States Postal Service in May 2005.
* The Lieb House located in Barnegat Light, New Jersey was designed by Venturi and his wife Denise Scott Brown and built in 1967.
The and V8 were supplied with the Variable Venturi Carburetor which was able to deliver highway efficiency in excess of ; a drawback of the system was its complexity and wear of its moving parts, requiring rebuilding at regular intervals ( typically about ).
There was an unofficial wind gust of in the southwest portion of the island, which may have been caused by the Venturi effect, or an acceleration of winds between walls.
Nelson had a significant role in the development of Tom Watson as a world-class player in the mid-1970s, and had earlier mentored Ken Venturi in the 1950s, while he was a rising star.
Venturi was born in San Francisco, California.
In the early 1950s, Venturi was a pupil of Byron Nelson, and was also influenced by playing partner Ben Hogan.
Venturi was a regular winner during his early years on the PGA Tour after turning pro at the end of 1956.
In 2004, a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs, California, Walk of Stars was dedicated to Venturi.
was and effect
For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
By now he was undergoing a fresh torrent of abuse from Tory papers and pamphlets, and action was being taken to effect his punishment by expulsion from Parliament.
Then, in some way, this lack of faith in the cavalry became mixed up in his mind with the dragging effect of wagon trains and was hardened into a prejudice.
One effect of the spirited give-and-take of these discussions was to focus attention on practical applications and the necessity of being armed with the facts: knowledge of the destructive force of even the tiniest `` tactical '' atomic weapon would have a bearing on judgments as to the advisability of its use -- to defend Berlin, for example ; ;
He was not sure what effect it would have, but that was really beside the point when you got right down to it.
The air was cooler here, and the lacy pattern of the trees threw a dappled shadow on the grass, an effect which he found pleasant.
Alex told her that there was no hurry for their breakfasts, trying at the same time to effect a speedy separation of the persons before and behind him.
The doctor shot down to the lavatory and turned the doorknob, but to no effect: the lavatory was occupied.
Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.
She was wearing her dark hair in two, thick braids to attain an `` American Girl '' effect she thought was appropriate to Halloween.
This increase was sufficient to overcome the effect on net income of higher costs of manufacture and increased expenditures on research and development.
The resulting magnetic effect proved stronger than when the discharge was made lengthwise.
Following observation of the fact that the reaction rates of supposedly identical reaction mixtures prepared on the same filling manifold and exposed under identical conditions often differed by several hundred per cent, a systematic series of experiments was undertaken to see whether the difficulty could be ascribed to the method of preparing the chlorine, to the effects of oxygen or moisture or to the effect of surface to volume ratio in the reaction tubes.
-- Although there was some variation in results which must be attributed either to trace impurities or to variation in wall effects, the photochemical exchange in the gas phase was sufficiently reproducible so that it seemed meaningful to compare the reaction rates in different series of reaction tubes for the purpose of obtaining information on the effect of chlorine concentration and of carbon tetrachloride concentration on the reaction rate.
The overall effect was probably to stimulate more party activity in the communal elections than might have otherwise taken place.
If this seems arbitrary, its effect was to treat citizens of the District of Columbia equally with citizens of the states -- at the expense of expanding a troublesome jurisdiction.
Since this type of item was not in the statute when section 381 was enacted in 1954, one cannot say with certainty what effect the enactment of that section should have.
The following month the invasion of Italy was begun, and Roosevelt gave effect to his warning by consenting to the stockpiling of poison gas in southern Italy.
This had a pleasant effect upon the Sunday gate receipts as well as upon the intake of the rail and bus companies, some of which began to offer special excursion rates, including seats at the park, just as the trolley and ferry companies had when baseball was new.
It was thrilling to see the effect of an American-trained teacher on Japanese students in a class in Home Planning.
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