Mechanical laboratory methods; the testing of instruments and machines in the mechanical engineering laboratory and in practice (1922)
Smallwood, Julian Chase · New York, D. Van Nostrand company · leaf 41
internalfluid pressure, the deformation causing a pointer to rotate upona graduated dial. (See Fig. 11.) The pointer is readily removedso that it can be set at any part of the dial to correspond to anapplied known pressure. It should be noted that the deformation of the hollow tubeis proportional… … SECTIONOF TUBE Fig. 11- -Mechanism of BourdonGage. mosphere, since the outer surface of the tube is subjected toatmospheric pressure; and to convert its readings into absolutepressures, one must add the baro- ^ZI^*^ metric pressure expressed in thesame units. The vacuum gage works on thesame…
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