Robin, Benjamin

Although this effect is associated with Magnus, it was investigated for spheres much earlier by Benjamin Robins (B6). 

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It is our pleasure to thank Myron Brin, Frank Loewus, Dietrich Hornig, and Jack Bauernfeind for helpful discussions in planning the symposium and this book. We are grateful to the chairmen of the various sessions Frank Loewus, Linus Pauling, and Benjamin Borenstein. The work of Suzanne B. Roethel and Robin Giroux of the ACS Books Department to assemble the manuscripts is gratefully acknowledged. 

This was the result of the (unobserved) absorption of the gas by water the theory is based on Boyle s (Vol. II, p. 523). Experiments similar to Hauksbee s on the volume of gas generated in the combustion of gunpowder were made by Benjamin Robins, who found that an ounce of powder produced 572 cu. in. of elastic fluid , the nature of which he did not investigate. 

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