A natural philosophy : embracing the most recent discoveries in the various branches of physics, and exhibiting the application of scientific principles in everyday life .. (1899)
Quackenbos, G. P. (George Payn), 1826-1881 · New York, Cincinnati [etc.], American book company · leaf 182
navigate the air. At different periods not long after the Christian era, ad-venturous men launched themselves from the tops of high buildings, andwith different sorts of apparatus which they had prepared moved a shortdistance through the air. Mechanical contrivances resembling wings weremore than… … A RECEIVER. The Air-pump. 423. The Air-pump is an instrumentused for removing the air from a vesselcalled a Receiver. Receivers are madeof glass, and are usually of the shaperepresented in Fig. 185. 424. Invention of the Aie-pump.—The air-pump was invented 1654 a. d.,by Otto Guericke [c/d-re-ka],…
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