Mechanical movements, powers and devices; a treatise describing mechanical movements and devices used in constructive and operative machinery and the mechanical arts, being practically a mechanical dictionary, commencing with a rudimentary description of the early known mechanical powers and detailing the various motions, appliances and inventions used in the mechanical arts to the present time, including a chapter on straight line movements, by Gardner D. Hiscox (1914)
Hiscox, Gardner Dexter, 1822?-1908 · New York, The Norman W. Henley publishing co. · leaf 188
s a pivoted float that,by its raising and falling, operates adouble-ported air valve for filling thetank, by discharging the air, and for dis-charging the water by the admission ofcompressed air. A single-flap valveat the bottom of the tank admits thewater. The valve is thrown only atthe top and… … li COMPRESSED AIR LIFTSYSTEM of pump-ing water fromdeep wells. Thepressure in the airpipe must be great-er than the hydrostatic pressure of the water at thebottom of the pipe, and in quantities sufficient tomake the ascending column of air and water inthe flow pipe lighter in its total height than…
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