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IN the “Calendar of Industrial Pioneers” in NATURE, May 6, p. 598, relative to the anniversary of William Froude, your correspondent says: “His (Froude) work led to the construction by the Admiralty of the experimental tank at Torquay, the first of its kind ever built.”
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WHITNEY, P. An Experimental Towing-tank used by Benjamin Franklin. Nature 110, 10 (1922). https://doi.org/10.1038/110010a0
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