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EXPERIMENTS ON CAVITATION

Thornycroft and Mr Sydney Barnaby. They designated this phenomenon by the appropriate name "Cavitation," and it entails, by

Fig. 35. Apparatus for Experiments on Cavitation.

the way, a great loss of power. The remedy lies in using very wide blades covering about