A manual of the mechanics of engineering and of the construction of machines. Designed as a text-book for technical schools and colleges, and for the use of engineers, architects, etc. (1878)
Weisbach, Julius Ludwig, 1806-1871, Du Bois, A. Jay (Augustus Jay), 1849-1915, Buel, Richard H. (Richard Hooker), b. 1842 · New York. J. Wiley & Sons, 1878- · leaf 111
he temperature was read offfrom a thermometer T, and the vol-ume and the force of expansion ofthe steam from the graduated bar S.In this way, Gay-Lussac foundthat one liter of steam at 100° and0-76 meters height of barometerweighed i.iiW = 0-5895 grammes. But, according to the same authority, the… … 5^959454 10001603 or quite closely five eighths. Another method for the determination of the specificgravity of vapors has been employed by Dumas. Fair-bairn and Tate have also instituted experiments upon thedensity of saturated and of superheated steam. (See Useful Information for Engineers, by…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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