Clemens Herschel
✓ Source-basedfallingHydraulic engineer, inventor of the Venturi meter
Clemens Herschel was an American hydraulic engineer. His career extended from about 1860 to 1930, and he is best known for inventing the Venturi meter, which was the first large-scale, accurate device for measuring water flow.
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A letter from Herschel to William Unwin on June 5, 1888, describing his invention of the Venturi meter while working at the Holyoke Water Power Company
A flow of air through a venturi meter, showing the columns connected in a U-shape (a manometer) and partially filled with water. The meter is "read" as a differential pressure head in cm or inches of water.![Chapin Mansion, where Herschel resided during his early years with the Holyoke Water Power Company[11]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9b/Chapin_Mansion%2C_Holyoke%2C_Massachusetts.JPG/1280px-Chapin_Mansion%2C_Holyoke%2C_Massachusetts.JPG?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=parser&utm_content=thumbnail)
Chapin Mansion, where Herschel resided during his early years with the Holyoke Water Power Company[11]
The Holyoke Testing Flume; designed by Herschel, it fostered the creation of new turbine technologies, including the Holyoke-Hercules/McCormick TurbineScientists from United States 6
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Clemens Herschel was an American hydraulic engineer. His career extended from about 1860 to 1930, and he is best known for inventing the Venturi meter, which was the first large-scale, accurate device for measuring water flow. He developed this device while serving as director of the Holyoke Testing Flume, a turbine testing facility which he would redesign, which became the first modern hydraulics laboratory in the United States and the world.
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