Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 245
avoiding the escape of waterfrom the joints of pistons prevented himfrom realizing his conception, and thepress was first constructed by Bramah, in1796, at London. It is perfectly evident that the principleof equality of pressures deduced in thelast section is entirely independent of theform of the… … rig. 216. THE THREE STATES OP MATTER. 221 ton a with a force of five kilogrammes, the piston b will beforced out with twenty times as much force, or one hundred kilo-grammes ; and, on the other hand, if we press in the piston b cwith a force of one hundred kilogrammes, the piston a will beforced…
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