Modern mechanism, exhibiting the latest progress in machines, motors, and the transmission of power, being a supplementary volume to Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics (1892)
Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 837
its steam condenses, and, being lighter than the liquidwater of the dron-leg, it rises much faster. If the contents of the riser have a specificgravity of only -1 that of the water in the drop leg. the rise will be ten times as rapid,and when the drop leg column rises 1 ft., the riser column will… … Fio. 1.—steam loop. STEEL, MANUFACTUEE OF. 807 ment that a decrease of pressure in the horizontal prodnees similar effects on contentsof riser and drop leg, but in degree inversely proportional to their densities. AVhen thecondensation in horizontal is maintained at a constant rate sufficient to…
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