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 544
n this principle: a quantity of the liquid is set in motion through aninclined tube, and its escape from the lower orifice is made suddenly to cease, when the momentum ofthe moving mass drives up a portion of its own volume to an elevation much higher than that fromwhich it descended. The first… … A represents the spring or reservoir, the surface of the water in which was of about the same levelas the bottom of the cistern B. The main pipe from A to the cock at the end of C, was nearly sixhundred feet in length, and one and a half inch bore. The cock was sixteen feet below A, and fur-nished…
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