Well's natural philosophy : for the use of schools, academies and privte students, introducing the latest results of scientific discovery and research ; arranged with special reference to the practical application of physical science to the arts and the experiences of everyday life ; with three hundred and seventy-five engravings (1873)
Wells, David A · New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co. · leaf 183
r of somewhat greater diameter. A pipe which leadsfrom the gas-works is carried through the water, and turned upward, so as toenter the mouth of the gasometer. The gas, flowing through the pipe, risesinto the gasometer, filling the upper part of it, and pressing down the water.Another pipe,… … PNEUMATICS. 179 a preponderance is allowef^. lo it as is sufficient to give the gas contained init the compression necessary to drive it through the pipes to the remotest partof the district to be illuminated. Fig. 171.
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