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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 137

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G, allowing the piston to descend. 35. The effective force of such a machine must be immensely Who first demonstrated the principle of hydrostatic pressures according to the height of column ? What application did Pascal propose to make of the principle of pres-sure according to the area of the… … PRESSURE OF LIQUIDS. 135 great, combining- as it doe? the advantages of solid and liquidpressure. The amount of the latter is to be estimated by therelative diameters of the two pistons; so that if the piston H behalf an inch in diameter and the solid cylinder or piston A onefoot, the pressure of…

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