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Scientific amusements (1890)

Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 677

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pistonis contained in the large one. So if the large one be tentimes as great as the small one, and the latter be forceddown with a 10 lb. pressure, the pressure on the largeone will be 100 lbs., and so on. 14 WATER. The accompanying illustration shows the form of therlydraulic or Bramah Press. A B… … Eramah Press. fhe Lectures of M. Aim6 Schuster, Professor and-librarian at Metz, have taught us in a very simplenanner the principle of Archimedes, in which it is laidlown that a body immersed in a liquid loses a portion)f its weight equal to the weight of the liquid displaced)y it. We take a body…

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