The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 215
of24 inches diameter, is so much increased that the jet is comparativelyweak ; the hose may of course be enlarged in diameter, but the weightis augmented, and the whole of the machinery is rendered more un-wieldy and less useful. Jets.—A great many different shapes of jet have been tried, andthat… … i».ili-^.^~V*3:?i„. , Fig. 10. Pig. 11. pipe; this had many inconveniences; the size of the jet could not beincreased without making the jet pipe nearly parallel. As thebranches were sometimes 7 feet or 8 feet long, in some instances theorifice at the end of the jet pipe was larger than that at the…
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