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 187
on iathen forced down, shutting the valve, g, and causing thewater to rise through the piston-valve, p; the piston isthen raised, closing its valve, and raising the waterabove it, which flows out of the spout, S. ,^ , 391. Water rises in a pump Whv does . . ^ water rise in a siinplv and entirely by… … 392. The common, or suction pump, canwill water rise j^^^ j,g^jgQ watcr bcvond the point of height at pump? which the column of water in the pump tube is exactly balanced by the weight of the atmosphere. Theutmost limit of this does not exceed 34 feet. The height to which water is thus forced up in…
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