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 200
When the right piston rises, that of the left sinks ; but the air below doesnot return to the right barrel, for the orifice is now closed by the conicalvalve. As the right cylinder continues to exhaust the air in the receiver,and to force it into the left cylinder, the air accumulates here and…
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