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 537
, a solid piece of wood or iron that is a little less than the cylinder is secured to the bottom oithe movable vessel as shown in the centre: this answers the same object as an equal bulk of mercury-. These pumps have their disadvantages; they are expensive : and however well made, the quantityof…
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