Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering : illustrated with four thousand engravings on wood ; in two volumes (1873)
D. Appleton and Company · New York : D. Appleton and Co. · leaf 15
pressure of the air in the receiver must be less than that of theatmosphere without. Wherefore, since the air in the receiver presses the mercury down the tube, andthe atmosphere pressing on the mercury in the basin forces it up the tube, with the greater force themercury will rise in the tube, and…
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