The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 79
t any-other limit than that of the strength of the materials of which the engine itself isconstructed. It also enables us with great facility to transmit the motion andforce of one machine to another, in cases where local circumstances preclude thepossibility of instituting any ordinary mechanical… … 212. What fact is mentioned in this number with regard to the pressure onwater? Upon what principle is Bramahs hydrostatic press constructed? WhatFig. represents this > Explain the Fig. What advantages result from that prop-erty of fluids stated in No. 212. HYDROSTATICS. 69 213. A fluid…
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