Henri Pitot

Henri Pitot , born with Vinestock (Gard) the May 29th 1695 and died in Aramon the December 27th 1771, is an engineer in Hydraulique French, inventor of the Tube of Pitot who is used to measure the speed of the fluids.

He began in Mathématiques and Astronomie and becomes assisting of the physicist Réaumur in 1723. He is named assistant mechanic of the Academy of Science in 1724, then associated mechanic in 1727 and boarder geometrician in 1733. He becomes superintendent of the Canal of the South and built a Aqueduc for the water supply of Montpellier. In 1740, he becomes member of the Royal Society.

Pitot is interested then in the problems of fluids, in particular in the water run-off in the rivers, and discovers that many theories of its time are unfounded. He thus invents an instrument intended for the velocity measurement of the fluids known today under the name of Tube of Pitot and employed in many fields, in particular in Aéronautique for the Anémomètre S.

Publication

• the Theory of the operation of the vessels reduced in practice, or Principles and rules to sail most advantageously that it is possible (1731)

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