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THE importance of determinations of the resistance of the air to moving bodies, in connection with the problem of aërial navigation and numerous other practical applications, has led the Société d'Encouragement pour l'Industrie Nationale to offer a prize for investigations of an essentially experimental nature dealing with the reactions on a surface moving through the air under varying conditions as to form and velocity. One series of experiments with this object has been undertaken by M. l'Abbé Le Dantec, and a second set by M. Canovetti. The following account of these researches is based on the papers communicated by their authors to the Bulletin of the Society, and the report on them by M. Barbet.
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BRYAN, G. The Resistance of the Air . Nature 61, 107–109 (1899). https://doi.org/10.1038/061107a0
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