Mechanics of the household; a course of study devoted to domestic machinery and household mechanical appliances (1918)
Keene, E. S. (Edward Spencer), b. 1864 · New York, McGraw-Hill book company, inc.; · leaf 172
is, when the tank is two-thirds full ofwater, the gage pressure will be about 30 pounds to the square WATER SUPPLY 161 inch, which is enough to supply water at any point of a two-storybuilding with ample force. By pumping more water into thetank, a pressure of 50 or 60 pounds may be obtained… … Fig. 144.—The pressure-tank system of water supply as it appears in a dwelling. the same, the pressure on confined gas varies inversely as itsvolume.^ As the volume of such a confined body of gas is madesmaller, the pressure increases in like ratio. The desired pres-sures are easily attained with a…
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