Cooke, Josiah Parsons, 1827-1894 · Boston, Little, Brown and Company · leaf 334
of the siphon, and forming apart of the iron U, is placed a three-way cock, whose construc-tion is sufficiently explained by the figures. According to theposition which we give to this cock, we may either open or closethe communication between the glass tubes, or vent the mercury THE THREE STATES… … Fig. 273. Fig. 275. terminates in a capillary tube, ■which is bent at right angles, andconnected with the vessel, a b, containing the gas or vapor whoseelasticity we wish to measure, by a connection of peculiar con-struction, and admirably adapted for experiments of this kind.To the end of the tube…
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