Hydraulic engineering; a practical treatise on the principles of water pressure and flow and their application to the development of water power, including the calculation, design and construction of water wheels, turbines, and other details of hydraulic power plants (1909)
American School (Chicago, Ill.), Black, Adolph, Turneaure, Frederick Eugene, 1866- · Chicago American School of Correspondence · leaf 15
his pressure will betransmitted equally to the larger vessel where the water will exertthe same pressure per square inch upon the vessel and upon anypiston W which may be inserted in any opening of the vessel CBy making the area of P small and of W large a small load P willbalance a large load W.… … iiT Fig. 3. hence the weight W which will be sustained will be equal to the Parea A multiplied by the pressure per square inch, —. or W= A (I) The principle above stated is utilized in the hydraulic pressshown in Fig. 3. In this ap])aratus a pump on the right with HYDRAULICS small plunger feeds a…
