Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 635
s to fourteen tons, but beingbalanced by elastic fluids in the body, the inconvenience isnot felt. The Weight of Air can easily be ascertained,though till the middle of the seventeenth century the airwas believed to be without weight. The following ex»periment will ptovie the weight of air. Takfe… … Weighing the air. ascertained turn the stop-cock, the air will rush in, and theglobe will then pull down the balance, thus proving that airpossesses weight. The experiments of Torricelli and OttoVon Guerike, however, demonstrated that the air has weight THE AIR-PUMP. 73
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