Experiments made before the instituted society in confirmation of the theory of the pressures which the walls of the channel sustain due to the flowing water

Abstract

This is an annotated translation from Latin of "Experimenta coram societate instituta in confirmationem theoriae pressionum quas latera canalis ab aqua tranfluente sustinet" in which Daniel Bernoulli describes six experiments conducted before the St. Petersburg Academy in 1729, in confirmation of his theory dedicated to the motion of water through ducts, which contains the developments that led to the relation between pressure and velocity in fluid flows, known as Bernoulli's principle.