A voyage in space; a course of six lectures "adapted to a juvenile auditory" delivered at the Royal Institution at Xmas 1913 (1915)
Turner, Herbert Hall, 1861-1930 · London Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge · leaf 86
ands by squeezing them tightly THE LENGTH OF OUR VOYAGE 65 together, and there are people who can make afascinating noise in that way. I have here twobeautiful planes, that Mr. Whitworth told us howto make; they fit one another so closely that wecan exclude the air without a pump. We mustnot merely… … TRYING TO SEPARATE THE TWOtt MA6DE6URG HEMISPHERES These two experiments show the enormous pres-sure air has. But that is only near the Earth;as we go up it gets less and less; or, perhaps, abetter way to look at it is that as we come downin the air the pressure gets greater, becauseevery layer has…
Astronomy -- Juvenile literature
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