Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 544
. The hydraulic ram raises water on this principle: aquantitj i id is set in motion through an inclined tube, and its escape from the lower orifice is nude sud I al when th ■ momentum of the moving mass drives up a portiou of its own volume to an elevation much higher than that fromwhich it… … A i ■ spring or reservoir, the surface of the water in which was of about the Bame li ■.. 1 as the :i B. The main | to the cock at the en 1 of 0, was oearl nd a half inch bore. The cock was sixteen feet below A, and,. il r i r the When il 1 the liquid column in AC was put in motion, and e to a fall…
Mechanical engineering
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