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The most prevalent hydraulic pump used in maritime situations in ancient Rome was the bilge pump, which functioned to siphon collected water out of a ship's hull (Oleson 1984). The bilge pump was an improvement on the first hydraulic pumps used in antiquity: force pumps.
Hydraulics (from Ancient Greek ὕδωρ (húdōr) 'water' and αὐλός (aulós) 'pipe') [2] is a technology and applied science using engineering, chemistry, and other sciences involving the mechanical properties and use of liquids. At a very basic level, hydraulics is the liquid counterpart of pneumatics, which concerns gases.
Hydraulics Clark Eldridge: Tacoma Narrows Bridge designer Charles Ellet Jr. American army officer and engineer Robert Elliott-Cooper: British civil engineer Edward B. Ellington: British hydraulic engineer William Henry Ellis: British civil engineer and steel maker Bill Emery: CEO of the Office of Rail Regulation: Jose Izquierdo Encarnacion
J. A. Eytelwein of Berlin, who published in 1801 a valuable compendium of hydraulics entitled Handbuch der Mechanik und der Hydraulik, investigated the subject of the discharge of water by compound pipes, the motions of jets and their impulses against plane and oblique surfaces; and he showed theoretically that a water-wheel will have its ...
Li Bing (Chinese: 李冰; pinyin: Lǐ Bīng; c. 3rd century BC) was a Chinese hydraulic engineer and politician of the Warring States period. He served the state of Qin as an administrator and is revered for his work on the Dujiangyan River Control System , which both controlled flooding and provided irrigation water year-round, greatly ...
Zhang Heng (78–139), China – Seismometer, first hydraulic-powered armillary sphere Beulah Louise Henry (1887–1973), U.S. – bobbin -free sewing machine , vacuum ice cream freezer Charles H. Henry (1937–2016), U.S. – Quantum well laser
This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and ...
Hydraulic Flood Retention Basin (HFRB) View from Church Span Bridge, Bern, Switzerland Riprap lining a lake shore. Hydraulic engineering as a sub-discipline of civil engineering is concerned with the flow and conveyance of fluids, principally water and sewage. One feature of these systems is the extensive use of gravity as the motive force to ...