A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 299
emachines; if the movements are not slow and regular, the mercury is veryapt to be thrown out; to prevent which the upper end of the vessel con •taining it is dished or enlarged. For experimental researches modifica-tions of such pumps may be useful, but for the reasons above stated, theyhave never… … No. 125. Mercurial Pump. 276 Hydrostatic Press. [Book III. also vol. xxxii, Phil. Transactions, and Abridg. vol. vi, 352. DesaguliersPhil. vol. ii, 491. In Jamiesons Dictionary, p. 852, a mercurial pump inthe form of a wheel is described. The hydrostatic press is simply a cylindrical forcing pump,…
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