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 205
ts the receiver R with the air-pump gauge E(202),while S connects the receiver with the barrels. When the receiver has beenexhausted S is turned through a quarter, and the vacuum is thus preserved.Air can be admitted by opening a screw, r, at the top of a channel in thestopcock itself The piston P… … i88 O71 Gases [201- vacuum is created under the piston, but the valve s having opened up con-nection with the receiver R, the air in this expands and fills both the receiverand the barrel. When P begins to descend, the valve s is closed by thedescent of the rod a, the rarefied air in the barrel can…
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