Hydraulic motors, with related subjects, including centrifugal pumps, pipes, and open channels, designed as a text-book for engineering schools (1905)
Church, Irving Porter, 1851-1931 · New York : J. Wiley & Sons; [etc, ] · leaf 310
the valveleading to the storage-tank, to perform the work of delivery;that is, to force the air at this final constant pressure into thetank. Dimensions are so designed that the water is broughtto rest just before it reaches the upper end of the compressingvessel. At that instant, by the automatic… … 265 2C6 HYDRAULIC MOTORS. § 162. from the outside; and the cycle is repeated indefinitely. Inthis way air may be compressed to a pressure very much greaterthan the hydrostatic pressure corresponding to the head ofwater used. At the Mt. Cenis tunnel the head, h, of the supply-pond was 85 ft., and…
Hydraulic machinery
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