Elementary treatise on physics, experimental and applied : for the use of colleges and schools (1906)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, Edmund, 1831-1901, Reinold, A. W. (Arnold William), 1843-1921 · New York : Wood · leaf 118
e of the branches contained water and the other oil, and their heightsabove their common surface were, respectively, 15 inches for the oil and14 inches for the water. The density of water being taken as unity, and thatof oil being called A, we shall have 15 X a- = 14 X I ; whence .r = ~ = 0*933.… … Fig. 8s by which enormous pressures may be produced. Its principle is due toPascal, but it was first constructed by Bramah in 1796. It consists of a cylinder, B, with very strong thick sides (fig. 85), inwhich there is a cast-iron ram, P, working water-tight in the collar of thecylinder. On the ram…
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