The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 21
ther of the lower handles horizontal, whichforming a connexion of the feed-pipe with one of the tubes inside of theboiler, fills that tube with feed-water; thus there are in the two tubes insideof the boiler two columns of water of different specific gravities, the one beingbrine, the specific… … temperature of condensation be what it may; but, inasmuch as these columnsof water are of different specific gravities, the pressure on the bottoms ofthem will force the lighter up the glass tube, until such a quantity of brine hasfollowed it as makes it of equal weight with the other; and hence,…
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