Johnson's natural philosophy and key to philosophical charts : illustrated with 500 cuts; being reduced photographic copies of all the diagrams contained in the author's philosophical series of indestructible school charts ; for the use of schools and families (1878)
HEAT. 185 generated faster than it can escape at the nozzle of the pipe ; then, asthe generation of steam goes on, the increased pressure will be shownby the increased force with which the water will rush out of the nozzle,by the elastic force of the steam exerted on the surface of the… … 330. Figure 30.—Candle-bombs, illustrating the explo-sion of steam-boilers.—These are globules of glass, about thesize of a pea, with a neck an inch, or so, long, yig. 30. in which a drop of water is confined by her-metically sealing the neck. When one of theseis stuck into the wick of a lamp, as…
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