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This page features Pioneers of Instrumentation born in May. The pictures are thumbnails, so clicking on them will make them larger.
Other important evens in May:
Blue jeans invented: May 20, 1873
Henri Pitot (1695 1771) was a French hydraulic engineer and the inventor of the Pitot Tube.
Birthday: May 3, 1695
Theodore
von Karman (1881 1963) made early
studies in 1912 on the use of bluff bodies and vortex swirls. The series
of vortex swirls are now called the von Karman
vortex street.
Birthday: May 11, 1881
Gaspard-Gustave
Coriolis (1792 1843) is well known for his work on the Coriolis
effect. The Coriolis effect
forms the basis for the operation of Coriolis flowmeters today. He was
also the first person to apply the term work to the product of force
and distance.
Birthday: May 21, 1792
Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686 1736) was a German physicist and engineer who determined a temperature scale now named after him.
Birthday: May 24, 1686
Sir
Francis Beaufort (1774 1857) was an Irish born hydrographer
and officer in Britain's Royal Navy. Beaufort was the creator of the
Beaufort scale for indicating wind force.
Birthday: May 27, 1774
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