Talk:Hydraulics

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[edit] Fluid Power -> Hydraulics and Pneumatics

Both hydraulics and Pneumatics are sub-categories of Fluid Power. The discussion of the general principles should be in a new page Fluid Power with hydraulic and pneumatic covering specifics and referring back to Fluid Power. I'm willing to tackle Fluid Power. -RatOmeter

Not sure that you're right. Surely things like sewer engineering and water transport are part of hydraulics.Cutler 18:24, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

I don't dispute that. The fact remains that fluid power deals with liquids and/or gases; hydraulics and pneumatics are specific to liquids and gases, respectively. Reference: http://www.nfpa.com/default.asp?pid=11 -User:RatOmeter

I'll be interested to see what you come up with but I fear that there is a danger of some stuff getting lost. Cutler 18:58, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)

It is desirable to add some explannation about how hydraulics actually works with some examples...

[edit] Car Hydraulics

Im looking for hydraulics like the ones on a car, can anyone redirect me?--72.79.126.240 04:24, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

See "lowrider"? Femto 11:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cut this out of the article

Not true guy this was made by Heather M

Not true!! The real guys name who was founder of the Hydraulics was named Thomas P. Humngen. He was born in 1959, and went to BrookBrige Collage, for conservitory masters digree.

[edit] One who works with hydraulics (and pneumatics too)

What do you call someone who works with pneumatics as a "as"? I.e. electrician is a trade job name for those that do wiring. A friend of mine says the trade job is "pipefitter". Any other insights? ~Gertlex 16:17, 2 June 2007 (UTC) lol the person on top of my article didn't know how to spell degree and shes talking about pneumatics and hydraulics ffs? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.194.83 (talk) 21:37, 1 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] We need to fix many "hydraulics" links to "hydraulic cylinder"

Many (probably most) of the articles that link to "hydaulics" or "hydraulic" are really referring to technologies based on the hydraulic cylinder or hydraulic motor, and not to the general physical science of the properties of fluids. At the very least we need to fix those links to point straight to hydraulic cylinder. Arriving from articles like backhoe and getting an article that's not immediately pertinent and doesn't even link to one that is is very unhelpful; it's like clicking microprocessor and arriving at electricity. I've added a (rather badly worded, I confess) dab link at the top of this article - I think it's really necessary given how many bad links there are to this. I've also taken a todo to fix these, but I'm rather time-poor right now, so any help is appreciated. -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 14:30, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

A very good point. Hydraulics can have two meanings:
  1. applied fluid dynamics, on one side of open water flows like rivers, canals, estuaries and seas, but also of pipe flows
  2. technology of actuators operated by (high-pressure) fluids
So perhaps it is an idea to have two hydraulics articles, one for each field. And change this page into a disambiguation page. But I also do not have the time to do this myself. Crowsnest (talk) 19:04, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
Hydraulic machinery is more general than hydraulic cylinder and gives a good overview of the technology. Crowsnest (talk) 19:14, 30 March 2008 (UTC)