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 535
tmos-phere, the water follows the piston in its ascent, whereas the water above the piston is pushed beforeit, and thus the fluid is discharged in a stream at the mouth C of the pump; and so on to any num-ber of strokes. If a perfect vacuum were formed by the piston as it ascends, the water would…
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