Bernoulli’s theorem: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Bernoulli’s law • Bernoulli’s principle

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Daniel Bernoulli

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Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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