 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water ; whereby it is forced into the space formerly occnpied by the air. Generally speaking, it is not a... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water. The water in a common or sticking pump is laised by this means, and rises to the height of 33 feet.... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water. The water in a common or sucking pump is raised by this means, and rises to the height of 33 feet.... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 pages
...it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the same principle, in the present instance, why does the... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...the water pushes up the valve c, and enters to supply the void left between с and u, being forced up by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water iu the well below. Next, the 28 ; where the lower valve и is moveable, being worked up and down with... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1815 - 680 pages
...it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the srunt irinciple, in the present instance, why does he... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water; whereby it is forced into the space formerly occupied by the air. Generally speaking, it is not a sudden... | |
 | George Birkbeck - 1827 - 166 pages
...cylinder and boiler. Then, turning the cock W, the weight of the water in the pipe P, aided very soon by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the cistern O, produces a jet within the cylinder, which, dashing against the piston, is dispersed... | |
 | John Johnston - Physics - 1846 - 314 pages
...connecting with its inside and a vessel of water, a beautiful jet will play into the receiver merely by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water without. 253. The Lifting- Pump. — The lifting-pump is designed to act altogether independently of... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1849 - 652 pages
...water, and the opening, r, closed, and the line, в, pulled taut, is put in action. The valve, n, opens by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the floating dry dock, and the latter rises in proportion to the outflow of watrr. The syphon is... | |
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... is forced into the condenser by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water supply outside. 
