Text-book of general physics, for the use of colleges and scientific schools (1899)
Hastings, Charles Sheldon · Boston: Ginn & company · leaf 137
o be determined doesnot much exceed that of theair, the end C of the manom-eter tube, as it is called, isleft open, as in Fig. %2A.The end D being put in com-munication with the vessel,the required pressure willthen be the reading of thebarometer increased by thedifference in level between Land M.… … Fig. 82. 95. Bourdon Pressure-Gauge. —In the mechanic arts ametallic gauge devised by Bourdon is extensively used forthe measurement of pressures. It consists of a thin metal tube, of elliptic or flattenedcross section, bent into the form of a circle (Fig. 83). An increase of the pressure within…
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