Joseph Palmer Frizell

Joseph Frizell (13 March 1832 – 4 May 1910) was an American engineer. He is notable for having independently derived the fundamental equations to describe the velocity of a shock wave (Water hammer equations) in 1898[1] and for his book Water-Power[2] in 1901, which was the first practical book on hydraulics in the USA.[3] I was a major milestone in the engineering knowledge, as Schutze wrote ″As an hydraulic engineer, Frizell was prominent, and his book, Waterpower, filled a definitive need in the technology of that day.″[4]

Joseph Palmer Frizell patent, about a hydraulic trompe.

References
  1. Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1898). "Pressures resulting from changes of velocity of water in pipes. Paper 819 presented 6 October 1897". Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers. 39: 1–18.
  2. Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1901). Water-power, an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water. New York: J. Wiley & sons.
  3. Hager, Willi (2015). Hydraulicians in the USA 1800-2000 : A biographical dictionary of leaders in hydraulic engineering and fluid mechanics. CRC Press. p. 2058. ISBN 9781315680125. OCLC 933441891.
  4. Schulze, Leroy E. (May 1954). Hydraulic Air Compressors. United States Department of Interior. p. 6.


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