pitot tube

pressure measurement instrument used to measure fluid flow velocity
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pitot tube

Summary

pitot tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (703 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • pitot tube is credited with the discovery of Henri Pitot[2].
  • pitot tube's image is recorded as Pitot tube wings.jpg[3].
  • Henri Pitot is named after pitot tube[4].
  • pitot tube's based on is recorded as Pitot theorem[5].
  • pitot tube's based on is recorded as Bernoulli's principle[6].
  • pitot tube's subclass of is recorded as manometer[7].
  • pitot tube's subclass of is recorded as aircraft component[8].
  • pitot tube's Commons category is recorded as Pitot tubes[9].
  • pitot tube's BNCF Thesaurus ID is recorded as 43658[10].
  • pitot tube's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/068nm[11].
  • pitot tube's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Pitot tubes[12].
  • pitot tube's Commons gallery is recorded as Pitot tube[13].
  • pitot tube's Art & Architecture Thesaurus ID is recorded as 300200056[14].
  • pitot tube's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0051204[15].
  • pitot tube's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[16].
  • pitot tube's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/pitot-tube[17].
  • pitot tube's different from is recorded as piezometer[18].
  • pitot tube's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3141780[19].
  • pitot tube's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as pitot-tubes[20].
  • pitot tube's Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID is recorded as pitotrør[21].
  • pitot tube's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 029741[22].
  • pitot tube's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["MeasurementDevice", "PitotTube"][23].
  • pitot tube's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Fluid dynamics[24].
  • pitot tube's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 162037100[25].
  • pitot tube's Lex ID is recorded as pitotrør[26].

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Works and Contributions

pitot tube is credited with the discovery of Henri Pitot[2].

Why It Matters

pitot tube ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (703 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
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  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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