Henderson, C. Hanford (Charles Hanford), 1861-1941, Woodhull, John F. (John Francis), 1857-1941 · New York, D. Appleton and company · leaf 157
sure of fif-teen pounds per squareinch. If this portion of thetube were made of rubber,its sides would collapse un-der the pressure. How isit with other portions of thetube ? In the lower end of the tube, at the level of the mer-cury in the cistern, the outward pressure of the column ofthirty… … tract inward. Halfway up the tube the pressure from with-out is still that of an atmosphere, while the pressure fromwithin is that of half an atmosphere—fif-teen inches of mercury. So it appearsthat while the pressure from without isfifteen pounds per square inch throughoutthe whole length of the…
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