Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company · Hartford, Ct. : Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co · leaf 228
with its crooked end behind,— that is, downward as shown in the illustration,—and by means of the blowpipe the open end of A was neatly and permanentlysealed up. The branch tube marked To Sprengel pump was then fusedto the suction tube of a Sprengel air pump capable of exhausting the airin the… … Fig. 2.— Filling the Capsule with Pure, Air-Free Water. wetted with concentrated sulphuric acid, and a straining tube loosely packedwith linen and cotton, being placed between b and the pump. The apparatus was now ready for the drying-out operation, which con-sisted in exhausting the air from T…
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