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,[2] and for his book Water-Power[3] published in 1901. Water-power was the first practical book on hydraulics in the USA.[4] This was a major milestone in propagation of engineering knowledge in USA, as Schutze wrote ″As an hydraulic engineer, Frizell was prominent, and his book, Waterpower, filled a definitive need in the technology of that day.″[5] Nevertheless, Frizell's description of the Water hammer was criticized by American contemporaries and his contribution to the field is under-recognised.[6]

Joseph Palmer Frizell patent, about a hydraulic compressed-air power-house.[1]

References
  1. Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1903). Water-power. New York: John Wiley & Sones. pp. 473–474. A committee of the Franklin Institute lately gave their attention to this method, and, in a formal report, pronounced it identical in principle with the ancient trompe, meaning the tronc above described. This statement is entirely incorrect ...
  2. 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. doi:10.1061/TACEAT.0001315.
  3. Frizell, Joseph Palmer (1901). Water-power, an outline of the development and application of the energy of flowing water. New York: J. Wiley & sons.
  4. 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.
  5. Schulze, Leroy E. (May 1954). Hydraulic Air Compressors. United States Department of Interior. p. 6.
  6. Wood, F. M. (1970). History of Water-hammer. C.E. Research Report No. 65. Kingston, Ontario.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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