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 168
cially intended to indicate good and badweather (fig. 151). In the shorter leg of the syphonthere is a float which rises and falls with the mercury.A string attached to this float passes round a pulley,and at the other end there is a weight somewhat lighterthan the float. A needle fixed to the… … Fig. 151- -176] Glycerine Barometer. 151 The barometers ordinarily met with in houses, and which are called^cueatker-glasses, are of this kind. They are, however, of little use, for tworeasons. The first is, that they are neither very delicate nor very accuratein their indications. The second,…
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