(person) by kessenich Sat Nov 13 1999 at 14:30:20
(1695-1771). A mathematician and astronomer who was elected to the Royal Academy of Sciences.

Pitot invented the Pitot tube, and developed it in 1732, using intuition (this predated Bernoulli) to determine that flow velocity decreased with depth (the tube measured the difference between total and static pressure).

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