The outlines of physics: an elementary text-book (1897)
Nichols, E. L. (Edward Leamington), 1854-1937 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd. · leaf 33
Fig. 12. 18 THE OUTLINES OF PHYSICS A familiar example of the same effect is the water tourniquet used for thesprinkling of lawns. Similarapparatus may be driven bymeans of the jets from areceiver of compressed air.One of the earliest of allheat engines, Heros engine(Fig. 13), depended upon… … THE LAWS OF FALLING BODIES 19 CHAPTER III THE LAWS OF FALLING BODIES 21. Galileos Experiments. — The direct observation ofthe flight of bodies falling freely through space is difficulton account of the high speeds which they acquire in ashort interval of time. The first accurate studies of this…
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