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Harold King Palmer, PhD
Harold King Palmer received his education from the University of California, Berkeley CA, with a BS degree in 1898, and the PhD degree in 1903. He was a fellow assistant of an observatory from 1898 to 1906, including two years in a branch observatory in Chile, and a computer of the San Joaquin Kings River Canal & Irrigation Co. from 1907 to 1908.
From 1909 to 1925 he was a junior, assistant and engineer of the US Indian Irrigation Service, from when be was a designer and chief draftsman of its Office Engineer. Palmer was member of the American Society of Civil Engineers ASCE, and the National Geographical Society.
Palmer's name has been particularly connected to a design made to measure discharge in sewers of circular shape. Whereas the original design of Ralph Leroy Parshall (1881-1959) was applied in open channels, the Palmer-Bowlus design applies to closed conduit conditions. Both are essentially based on the critical flow theorem, by which the transition from sub-to-supercritical flow is forced by a channel contraction. This basic hydraulic principle allows for discharge determination with only one depth reading upstream of the contraction.
The Palmer-Bowlus flume was perfected by WelJs and Harold Benedict Gotaas (1906-1977), and an improved portable version was recently fabricated in Japan. The discharge coefficient varies only within a small range, and the modular limit undergoes an only small variation, rendering the device practical.
Anonymous (1941). Palmer Harold K. Who's who in engineering 5: 1343. Lewis: New York.
Anonymous (1961). Harold King Palmer. Civil Engineering 31 (5): 100.
Palmer, H.K., Bowlus, F.D. (1936). Adaptation of Venturi flumes to flow measurements in conduits. Trans. ASCE 101: 1195-1239. (P)
Palmer, H.K., Bowlus, F.D. (1938). Discussion of Measurement of debris-laden stream flow with critical-depth flumes. Trans. ASCE 103: 1264-1266.
Palmer, H.K. (1939). Gaging stations for small streams. Civil Engineering 9(9): 497-498.
Perrine, C.D., Palmer, H.K., Moore, F.C. (1910). Determination of the solar parallax from photographs of Eros made wilh the Crossley reflector of the Lick Observatory, University of California. Carnegie Institution of Washington: Washington DC.
Thesis: An application of the Crossley reflector of the Lick Observatory to the study of very faint spectra
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Harold King Palmer's Timeline
| 1878 |
January 20, 1878
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Oakland, Alameda County, California, United States
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| 1960 |
December 8, 1960
Age 82
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Los Angeles County, California, United States
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