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Somerscales, A. N · Glasgow : J. Munro; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 24
n for temperature also. 3«—The Aneroid Barometer. One form of aneroid (no liquid) barometer is constructed witha Bourdon tube, almost exactly like the vacuum gauge of a steamengine. It is indeed obvious that if the Bourdon tube of a vacuumgauge were completely exhausted of air and then sealed up,… … fe^/->///y/y//////////////^!^/^^ ^ t23-^rZ> Fig. 5- The usual construction, however, of the aneroid is upon adifferent mechanical principle. A vacuum box is made with corrugated sides—a round flat boxabout 3 in. or 4 in. diameter—(A) in Fig. 5. The under side of the box at its centre is…
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