- Henri Pitot
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name = Henri Pitot
caption =Henri Pitot
birth_date = birth date|1695|5|3|df=y
birth_place = Aramon,Gard ,France
death_date = death date and age|1771|12|27|1695|5|3|df=y
death_place = Aramon,Gard ,France
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field =hydraulics
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known_for =Pitot tube
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footnotes =Henri Pitot (
May 3 ,1695 –December 27 ,1771 ) was a Frenchhydraulic engineer and the inventor of thePitot tube .He became interested in studying the flow of water at various depths and was responsible for disproving the prevailing belief that speed of water increases with depth.
In a Pitot tube the height of the fluid column is proportional to the square of the velocity. This relationship was discovered intuitively by Henri Pitot in 1732, when he was assigned the task of measuring the flow in the river
Seine .He rose to fame with the design of
Aqueduc de Saint-Clément nearMontpellier and the extension ofPont du Gard inNîmes . In 1724 he became a member of theFrench Academy of Sciences , and in 1740 a fellow of theRoyal Society .External links
* [http://www.haestad.com/library/books/awdm/awdmflatfiles/AWDM%20Online-09-6.html History of water distribution]
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