The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 85
ied a barrel of oil on the water, which has thus been protected from the fric-tion of the air. r The common pump, and the forcing pump will be explained in connexion withpneumatics. What does Fig. 55 represent ? How is the rapidity of the current estimated ?What is the use of the instrument ? What… … HYDRAULICS. /5 ,nch is forced up ihe tube by every successive revolution, until itis discharged at the upper end. 229. The chain pump is a kind of pump used onboard of ships. F»g- 57« Illustration. Fig. 57 represents a chain pump. It consists of a square box throughwhich a number of square boards…
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