Henry Selby Hele-Shaw

This photo of Henry Selby Hele-Shaw appeared in Page's Magazine, August 1902.

Henry Selby Hele-Shaw FRS[1] (1854–1941) was an English mechanical and automobile engineer. He was the inventor of the variable-pitch propeller, which contributed to British success in the Battle of Britain in 1940,[citation needed] and he experimented with flows through thin cells. Flows through such configurations are named in his honour (Hele-Shaw flows).[2] He was also a co-founder of Victaulic.[3]

  1. ^ Guy, H. L. (1941). "H. S. Hele-Shaw. 1854-1941". Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society. 3 (10): 790–811. doi:10.1098/rsbm.1941.0035. S2CID 154401049.
  2. ^ http://www2.maths.ox.ac.uk/~howison/talks/bamc04.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Victaulic to Provide Piping Systems for Four Landmark Buildings".