Joseph Frizell (13 March 1832 – 4 May 1910) was an American engineer. He is notable for having independently derived the fundamental equations to describe the velocity of a shock wave (Water hammer equations) in 1898,[2] and for his book Water-Power[3] published in 1901. Water-power was the first practical book on hydraulics in the USA.[4] This was a major milestone in propagation of engineering knowledge in USA, as Schutze wrote ″As an hydraulic engineer, Frizell was prominent, and his book, Waterpower, filled a definitive need in the technology of that day.″[5] Nevertheless, Frizell's description of the Water hammer was criticized by American contemporaries and his contribution to the field is under-recognised.[6]
References
edit- ^ Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1903). Water-power. New York: John Wiley & Sones. pp. 473–474.
A committee of the Franklin Institute lately gave their attention to this method, and, in a formal report, pronounced it identical in principle with the ancient trompe, meaning the tronc above described. This statement is entirely incorrect ...
- ^ Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1898). "Pressures resulting from changes of velocity of water in pipes. Paper 819 presented 6 October 1897". Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 39: 1–18. doi:10.1061/TACEAT.0001315.
- ^ Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1901). Water-power, an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water. New York: J. Wiley & sons.
- ^ Hager, Willi (2015). Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000 : A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. CRC Press. p. 2058. ISBN 9781315680125. OCLC 933441891.
- ^ Schulze, Leroy E. (May 1954). Hydraulic Air Compressors. United States Department of Interior. p. 6.
- ^ Wood, F. M. (1970). History of Water-hammer. C.E. Research Report No. 65. Kingston, Ontario.
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