Discoveries and inventions of the nineteenth century (1905)
Routledge, Robert · London : G. Routledge and Sons · leaf 123
one plate is made toslide over the other, so as to exclude the air, they may both be lifted byraising the upper one (b). This effect has, by several philosophers, beenattributed to the mere pressure of the atmosphere ; but recent experimentsof Professor Tyndalls show that the plates adhere even in… … Fig. 34.—Interior of Engineers Workshop. TOOLS.
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