Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 695
ined tube, and its escape from the lower orifice is madesuddenly to cease, when the momentum of the moving mass drives up a portion of its own volumeto an elevation much higher than that from which it descended. The first person who is known to have raised water by a ram, designed for the purpose,… … was of about the same level as the bottom of the cistern B. The main pipe from A to the cock atthe end of C was nearly 600 ft. in length, and of 1^-inch bore. The cock was 16 ft. below A, andfurnished water for the kitchen offices, etc. When it was opened the liquid column in A C was putin motion,…
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