Machinery and processes of the industrial arts, and apparatus of the exact sciences (1869)
Barnard, Frederick A. P. (Frederick Augustus Porter), 1809-1889 · Washington, Govt. print. off. · leaf 243
as not before been successfully applied to the case of water underpressure. Subjoined is the inventors description, which is sufficientlyexplicit to require no addition. Fig. 72 is a perspective view of the whole, the upper portion beingof glass, to allow a view of the interior. The small sections… … Cochranes Water Meter. A is the pipe which supplies the water, and B a receiving and retard-ing vessel bolted upon the top of the main case C. This vessel serves asa kind of air chamber, and allows the water to fall gently into the cupbelow. D is a cock, through which the water is discharged, and E…
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