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 184
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. … Why will nota liquid flowfrom a tightcask with onlyone opening? 385. A liquid will not flow continuously from a tight caskafter it has been tapped or pierced, unless another openingis made as a vent-hole, in the upper part of the cask. Thecask being air-tight, with the exception of a single…
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