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SUMMARY:Making waves on the "mathematical canal" - Dr David Pritchard\, Un
 iversity of Strathclyde
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CONTACT:Catherine Pearson
DESCRIPTION:John Scott Russell's discovery of solitary waves on the Union 
 Canal in 1834 is one of the most famous anecdotes in fluid mechanics\, ret
 old in many textbooks and commemorated in the name of a bridge. But what r
 esearch programme was Russell involved in\, what were the results\, and ho
 w closely is it connected to the world's first fatal motor-vehicle acciden
 t?\n\nDrawing on contemporary records as well as more recent scholarship r
 eveals the tensions in the background to both Russell's experiments and hi
 s multiple versions of the discovery story\, and helps us to reconstruct a
  complicated and sometimes shady episode at the interface of science\, eng
 ineering\, and industry.
LOCATION:Open Plan Area\, Institute for Energy and Environmental Flows\, M
 adingley Rise CB3 0EZ
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