A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water (1850)
Ewbank, Thomas, 1792-1870 · New York, Bangs, Platt, & Co. · leaf 539
er on. The action of a siphon does not depend upon any inequality of atmo-spheric pressure, as some writers on natural philosophy have inadvertentlyintimated. In one popular work, it is said, the pressure of the air ismore diminished ; and in another, more weakened or abated over thedischarging… … Chap. 6.] Variety of their forms and materials. 515 it than over the other. Nor does the effect depend upon any differencein the actual lengths of the legs, for they are often in this respect thesame ; and sometimes the receiving one is much longer (in an obliquedirection) than the other—not yet…
Pumping machinery
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