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History of Science & Technology Q&A (August 10, 2022)

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The Evolution of Fluid Mechanics

People had been interested in sort of empirical fluid mechanics from the time when people were making kites to the time of the Wright brothers. So that led to kind of the ability to study in the lab various kinds of fluid mechanics. I just saw actually a rather charming picture talking of kites of a Alexander Graham Bell was a lover of exotically shaped kites and one that I just saw a picture of was a three dimensional fractal Sapinsky tetrahedral kite that he had in the very beginning of the 1900sI think that he was flying. But in any case I think that the interest in wind tunnels and sort of understanding fluid mechanics more scientifically certainly was there even from the

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