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pronunciation:
[peetoh]
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| Hydraulic and civil engineer, born in Aramon, SE France. He had little formal education, but became laboratory assistant to the great physicist Réaumur in 1723. He developed a particular interest in hydraulic engineering, was appointed superintendent of the Canal du Midi, and constructed an aqueduct for the water supply of Montpellier. In 1730 he invented the device now known as the Pitot tube, by means of which the relative velocity of a fluid past the orifice of the tube may be measured. |
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