Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 114
liquid may be determined. Suppose oneof the branches contained water and the other oil, and their heights were,respectively, 15 inches for the oil and 14 inches for the water. The densityof water being taken as unity, and that of oil being called x, we shall have 14 15 X .t-= 14 X I ; whence x =… … Fig. 77. enormous pressures may be produced. Its principle is due to Pascal, but itwas first constructed by Bramah in 1796. -108] Hydraulic Press. 97 It consists of a cylinder B, with very strong thick sides (fig. 77), inwhich there is a cast-iron ram P working water-tight in the collar of…
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