Tissandier, Gaston, 1843-1899, Frith, Henry, 1840-, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · London, New York [etc.] Ward, Lock & Co · leaf 680
den with two tubs for carrying a supplyof water, and in the bottom of the tubs a valve was fixed..When the horse entered the stream the tubs were partlyimmersed ; the water then exercised its upward pressure,,the valve opened, and the tubs slowly filled. When they WATER LEVEL. 117 were nearly full… … Experiment on the convexity of a meniscus, in narrow spaces, as of a fine glass tube, or the level of twoadjoining waves, capillary phenomena, etc., do not needany special appHance for demonstration, and it is the samewith the convexity or concavity of meniscuses.* *> The curved surface of a…
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