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Scientific American, Vol. 93, No. 4 (July 1905) (1905)

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er. Beyond this surfaces of various length, moving at length the friction exceeds the true head all ordinary velocities of locomotion. resistance. A still better form consists This much accomplished, some fur- of a two-caliber bow, shown dotted in the ther experiments were made, to ob- figure,… … a certain moder- olid, was ten to Exterior of Wind Tunnel, Showing the Screen Removed and the Skin Friction Planes in the Foreground. ate velocity the fifteen per cent resistance of a greater than for ATMOSPHERIC FRICTION AS AN OBSTACLE IN LOCOMOTION.

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