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 94
by water. The glass tube R and the § 384.] STEAM. pointer Z served to determine the height of the mercury inthe vessel G. The experiments were conducted in the fol-lowing manner: At first the tube H and safety-valvebeing open, the water was allowed to boil for fifteen ortwenty minutes in order to… … ^S*^-^.,:^£n,^I,„^^X „\^-~\s-^\..~^N^-N.x.x^^^Ji^^>^C^%> V_-X^^ the one and another observer the other. In this manner,thirty observations were made at from 123° to 224-15° oftemperature, or 2-14 to 23-994 atmospheres. As the application of the air manometer is based uponthe law of Mariotte,…
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