Locomotive breakdown questions answered and illustrated (1907)
Wallace, W. G · Chicago, F. J. Drake & Co. · leaf 150
e-shaped Sur-faces.—If I take a piece of pipe, any length or size,and screw an ordinary cap on each end, my argumentwith a friend was that if one of them was a flat surfaceinside and the other was cone-shaped, as per sketch, thepressure would be considerably less on the cone-shapedend with, any… … Pipt with Flat and Cone-shaped Caps the surface given to pressure. Please state the differencein pressures, and oblige? Anszver.—There would be no difference in the pres-sure exerted on each cap, tending to force them from thepipe or to strip the threads, as the pressure is equal. This brings to…
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