Appleton's dictionary of machines, mechanics, engine-work, and engineering (1869)
New York, Appleton · leaf 900
to apply an ajutage to the orifice of the form assumed by the jet, tftedischarge will be found to approximate very closely to that assigned by the theoretical formula. This difference of discharge in the two kinds of aperture is usually ascribed to the inclined directionswhich the molecules of the…
Mechanical engineering
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