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Sir Hiram Maxim
(5 Feb 1840 - 24 Nov 1916)
American-English inventor.
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Science Quotes by Sir Hiram Maxim (1)
But as no two (theoreticians) agree on this (skin friction) or any other subject, some not agreeing today with what they wrote a year ago, I think we might put down all their results, add them together, and then divide by the number of mathematicians, and thus find the average coefficient of error. (1908)
— Sir Hiram Maxim
In Artificial and Natural Flight (1908), 3. Quoted in John David Anderson, Jr., Hypersonic and High Temperature Gas Dynamics (2000), 335.
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