A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 522
moment its end is opened; but it willdepend upon the length and figure of the tube, and the relative proportionof its two orifices, whether the liquid rush up above the surface without,or slowly reach it and there remain. The following are selected from a number of experiments made severalyears… … Nos. 222. 223. 224. 225. 227. 228. Exper. I.—No. 222, a cylindrical glass tube, 18 inches long and half-inchbore. Its upper orifice was closed air-tight by the finger, and the lowerone then held four inches under the surface of the water in the vessel.Upon raising the finger, the liquid rose in the…
Pumping machinery
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