The Boston school compendium of natural and experimental philosophy .. (1837)
Parker, Richard Green, 1798-1869 · Boston : Marsh, Capen & Lyon · leaf 93
ng syringe is, in fact, nothing more than the air pump reversed, bywhich air is diiven into any vessel instead of being drawn out The valve,therefore, opens inwards in respect to the vessel, instead of outwards, as the ex-hausting pump is constructed. Explain the operation of the pump. What is… … Experiments to be made with the air pump. 1. Place the glass re-ceiver R, as represented in fig. 64, upon the pump plate, and exhaustthe air from under it, by working the piston up and down. Thereceiver will adhere strongly to the plate. But if the air be re-ad-mitted by turning the screw S, the…
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