International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, Pa. : The Colliery engineer co. · leaf 445
siphon willwork well. 1075. Intermittent Springs.—Sometimes a springis observed to flow for a time and then cease; then, after aninterval, to flow again for a time. The generally accepted PNEUMATICS. 433 explanation of this is that there is an underground reservoirfed with water through fissures in… … Fig. 202.level of the water in the reservoir falls below the mouth ofthe siphon, the water flowing out of the reservoir faster thanit is supplied to it. This flow then ceases until the water inthe reservoir has again reached the level of the highest pointof the siphon. THE INJECTOR. 1076. A section…
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