Journal of the Association of Engineering Societies (1881)
Association of Engineering Societies (U.S.) · New York, [etc.] Board of Managers · leaf 46
suddenly checking this flow, to direct the energy or momentum of the water in the supply pipe to driving water through a check valve into the air vessel and thence through a delivery pipe. The theoretical and computable elements involved in the action of hydraulic rams are simple, so far as the… … Fig. 6. Fig. 5. Molesworth, in his engineering pocket-book, says, of hy- draulic rams: "One-seventh of the water can be raised about four times the head of the supply; or, one-fourteenth of the water to eight times the head; or, one-twenty-fourth to sixteen times the head, and so on." He also…
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