Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1861)
Appleton, firm, publishers, New York. (1852, D. Appleton & Co.) · New York : D. Appleton · leaf 97
fice. By means of flanges, thebrass box is secured to a conical frustum of copper, Fig. 278, so as to form the bottom thereof, whilethe pipe, extending above the copper case, is screwed to a hollow cylinder of brass, A, Fig. 279, pro-vided with two nozzles and gallows screws gg for the attachment… … In connecting the pipes conveying the gases with the brass cylinder, A, Fig. 279, care should betaken to attach that conveying oxygen to the upper nozzle, while the other, conveying hydrogen, shouldbe attached to the lower nozzle; since, by these means, their great difference in density tends to…
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