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 234
instrument consists of a system ofparallel tubes A B, B C, C D . . ., Fig. 668, the lower por-tion of each being filled up to Af N with mercury, and theupper portions with water. If, now, one end K communi- § 430.] STEAM-GENERA TING APPARA TUS. 221 cates with the steam and the other end L with the… … brium with the combined mercury and water pressure.If all the pipes have the same diameter, which is neces-sary for the success of the instrument, then any rise of themercury in the first tube is equal to its fall in the second,and the difference of level is therefore 2 x, and the samedifference…
Mechanics, Applied · Mechanical engineering
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