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 119
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… … -107] to be pressed is placed,second plate, Q. By means of a leaden pipe, K, the cylinder B, which is filled with water,communicates with a small force-pump. A, which works by means of a lever,M. When the piston of this pump, p, ascends, water rises in the tube a,at the end of which there is a…
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