Natural philosophy. including statics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, dynamics, hydrodynamics, the general theory of undulations, the science of sound, the mechanical theory of music, etc. : designed for the use of normal and grammar schools, and the higher classes in common schools (1867)
Sangster, John Herbert, 1831-1904 · Montreal : Printed and published by John Lovell · leaf 87
and a pressure toany amount be exerted upon any one square inch of thesurface of that water, a pressure to an equal amount willbe transmitted to every square inch of the interior surfaceof the vessel in which the water is confined. Fig. 16. XOTE.—In the accompanying figuresuppose the piston P has… … perty of equal and instant transmis-.-ion of pressure Tvhich enables us tomake use of hydrostatic pressure as amechanical power, and it is upon thisprinciple that Bramahs HydrostaticPress is constructed. 183. Bramahs Hydrostatic Press consists of two strongmetalic cylinders A and o, one many times…
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