Giovanni Battista Venturi

Giovanni Battista Venturi
Born(1746-09-11)11 September 1746
Bibbiano
Died10 September 1822(1822-09-10) (aged 75)
Reggio Emilia
Known forVenturi effect

Giovanni Battista Venturi (11 September 1746 – 10 September 1822) was an Italian physicist, savant, man of letters, diplomat and historian of science. He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect, which was described in 1797 in his Recherches Experimentales sur le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides appliqué a l'Explication de Differens Phenomènes Hydrauliques,[1] translated into English by William Nicholson as "Experimental Inquiries Concerning the Principle of the Lateral Communication of a Motion in Fluids," and published in 1836 in Thomas Tredgold's Tracts on Hydraulics.[2][3] Because of this discovery, he is the eponym for the Venturi tube, the Venturi flow meter and the Venturi pump.

  1. ^ See:
    • Venturi, J.B. (1797). Recherches Experimentales sur le Principe de la Communication Laterale du Mouvement dans les Fluides appliqué a l'Explication de Differens Phenomènes Hydrauliques [Experimental investigations into the principle of the lateral communication of the movement in fluids applied to the explanation of different hydraulic phenomena] (in French). Paris, France: Houel et Ducros and Théophile Barrois.
    • English translation: Venturi, J.B. with William Nicholson, trans. (1799) "Experimental researches concerning the principle of the lateral communication of motion in fluids, applied to the explanation of various hydraulic phenomena," Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, vol. 2: 172–179, 273–276, 422–426, 487–494 ; vol. 3: 13–22, 59–61.
  2. ^ Venturi, J.B.; Nicholson, William, trans. (1836). "Experimental researches concerning the principle of the lateral communication of motion in fluids, applied to the explanation of various hydraulic phenomena". In Tredgold, Thomas (ed.). Tracts on Hydraulics. London, England: M. Taylor. pp. 123–184.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  3. ^ Frazier, Arthur H. "Water Current Meters" (PDF). Smithsonian Institution. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 March 2014. Retrieved 9 July 2012.