The Net Advance of Physics:
History and Philosophy: Osborne Reynolds

• Mac Tutor Page
• Osborne Reynolds, by R. A. Smith [Queens College, Cambridge]
• Osborne Reynolds: Scientist, Engineer, and Pioneer, by J. D. Jackson: [University of Manchester]
• Osborne Reynolds History and Heritage of Civil Engineering [ASCE]
• Wikipedia (link to electronic version of his collected papers on physics)
• Biography [Corrosion Doctors]
• Osborne Reynolds, by John H.Lienhard Engines of our Ingenuity [University of Houston]
• Osborne Reynolds from Grigull, et al., Origins of Dimensionless Groups of Heat and Mass Transfer. Lehrstuhl a Fuer Thermodynamik Technische Universitaet Muenchen, 1982. (very short) Hall of Heat Transfer Pioneers [University of Texas, Austin]
• Osborne Reynolds and the Publication of his Papers on Turbulent Flow, by Derek Jackson and Brian Lander, 2007 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (PDF) [Laboratory for Environmental and Process Fluid Mechanics, Udine, Italy]
• Notes on the History of the Reynolds Number, by N. Rott, 1990 Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics (PDF) [Laboratory for Environmental and Process Fluid Mechanics, Udine, Italy]
• Intuitive Derivation of Reynolds Number, by Randall D. Peters and Loren Sumner, 2003/06
• Life at Low Reynolds Number, by E. M. Purcell, 1976/06 (reprint of paper published in American Journal of Physics) [University of California, Irvine]
• How does a Light-Mill Work? by Philip Gibbs, 1996/07 Usenet Physics FAQ [University of California, Riverside]
• History of Lubrication: Osborne Reynolds, 1999/10 Lubrication Engineering [B-Net]
• Osborne Reynolds Apparatus (Greek language) [Educational Systems, Ltd.]
• Who Was Osborne Reynolds? by David E. Schwartz, 2000 (application of the Reynolds number to handicapping) [Horse Street Publications]

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