A system of natural philosophy, designed for the use of schools and academies (1845)
Moffat, J[ohn] M. [from old catalog] · Philadelphia, E. C. Biddle · leaf 134
nly to the bottom of the tube, pro-duces a sound like that arising from the stroke of a small hammeron a hard body, whence the name of this instrument, the action ofwhich depends entirely on the exclusion of the air, so that thewater moves in a dense mass. 24. The pressure of liquids extending… … 25. In the preceding figure let A JB represent a glass vesselclosed except at the two raised extremities, and filled with waterto a height above the horizontal line; then suppose four dif-ferently shaped tubes C, D, E, F, open at both ends, to be in-serted in the oblong part of the vessel, with…
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