Tuesday, June 22, 2010

A fan with no blades?

That crafty James Dyson reveals the physics behind his Air Multiplier.

I hope it doesn't offend anyone's Bernoulli sensibilities.



I know: one more thing we didn't invent. Sigh. We're not Knights of the Realm, either.

4 comments:

  1. Stevie Ray11:01 PM

    That's so cool (literally). I would love to see some wind tunnel videos of the thing in action complete with smoke trails.

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  2. Ha! That was my thought, too. I'm sure someone will YouTube it.

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  3. Dan Burns12:47 PM

    It looks like it is one more thing that Dyson didn't invent too:

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/6377644/Dyson-fan-was-it-invented-30-years-ago.html

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  4. Alfred North Whitehead3:40 PM

    Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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