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 95
orifice. By means of flanges, thebrass box is secured to a conical frustum of copper, Fig. 278, so as to form the bottom thereof, whileshe 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 g g for the… … 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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