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Hydrostatics and elementary hydrokinetics (1892)

Minchin, George Minchin, 1845-1914 · Oxford : Clarendon Press · leaf 32

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that the actual pressureintensity at a point 100 feet down is 58^ pounds weightper square inch. General Properties of a Perjcct Fluid. 17 7. The Hydraulic Press. A machine the action ofwhich ilhistrates the Princii)le of Pascal is the HydraulicPress, repreKented in Fig-. 7. It consists of a stout… … Fig. 7. pressure between the platform and a strong- plate, B, fixedto four strong- vertical pillars. The pressure is appliedat the bottom of the piston P by a column of water whichis forced into the cylinder A throug-h a tube, t, whichcommunicates with a reservoir of water, B. The water isdriven…

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