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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 ...
Some Reflections on the History of Fluid Dynamics, in The Handbook of Fluid Dynamics (ed. by R.W. Johnson, CRC Press) Ch. 2. J. S. Calero (2008). The Genesis of Fluid Mechanics, 1640–1780 (Springer). ISBN 978-1-4020-6414-2; O. Darrigol (2005). Worlds of Flow: A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl (Oxford University Press).
[1] 2000–1500 BC – First dams constructed in India to control water. [1] 1700 BC – Windmill are used in Babylonia to pump water. 14th century BC – Water clock are developed in Egypt under the reign of Amenhotep III. Clepsydra water clock design is developed in ancient Greece. [1] 6th century BC – Theodorus of Samos invents the water ...
A new study suggests that the first of seven key pyramids in Egypt, the Step Pyramid of Djoser, was built using a hydraulic lift. Dated to about 4,500 years ago, this would move up the ...
Hydraulics and other studies [1] An open channel, with a uniform depth. Open-channel hydraulics deals with uniform and non-uniform streams. Illustration of hydraulic and hydrostatic, from the "Table of Hydraulics and Hydrostatics", from Cyclopædia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, edited by Ephraim Chambers, 1728, Vol. 1
The screw pump is the oldest positive displacement pump. [1] The first records of a water screw, or screw pump, date back to Hellenistic Egypt before the 3rd century BC. [1] [3] The Egyptian screw, used to lift water from the Nile, was composed of tubes wound round a cylinder; as the entire unit rotates, water is lifted within the spiral tube to the higher elevation.
A simple open center hydraulic circuit. An excavator; main hydraulics: Boom cylinders, swing drive, cooler fan, and trackdrive Fundamental features of using hydraulics compared to mechanics for force and torque increase/decrease in a transmission. Hydraulic machines use liquid fluid power to perform work. Heavy construction vehicles are a ...
Foil (fluid mechanics) – Solid object used in fluid mechanics; Fluid coupling – Device used to transmit rotating mechanical power; Gas kinetics – Study of the motion of gases; Hydrofoil – Type of fast watercraft and the name of the technology it uses; Keel – Lower centreline structural element of a ship or boat hull (hydrodynamic)