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Mechanical appliances, mechanical movements and novelties of construction; a complete work and a continuation, as a second volume, of the author's book entitled "Mechanical movements, powers and devices" ... including an explanatory chapter on the leading conceptions of perpetual motion existing during the past three centuries (1914)

Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, N. W. Henley Publishing · leaf 388

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in the figure. As the pres-sure of 40 inches of mercury will exceedthe atmospheric pressure, and also that of the four-feet column of water,when the India-rubber bottle is lowest, and the tube erect, as at D, themercury will fill it, leaving a vacuum in the glass bulb above. On theopposite side the… … 3^4 PP:KrETUAL MOTION. each other; but the tube, D, with its bulb swelled out, displaces a pintof water more than its opposite tube, and hence will attempt to rise withthe force of about one pound, and each tube, when it arrives at thesame position, must produce the same result; the wheel must have…

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