The Steam Engine and Its Inventors: A Historical SketchMacmillan, 1881 - 260 sider |
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... feet , 2 and finding they could not draw it above that height , they applied to Galileo for the reason . The philosopher was at a loss how to account for it , but suggested that nature's abhorrence of a vacuum ceased when the water ...
... feet , 2 and finding they could not draw it above that height , they applied to Galileo for the reason . The philosopher was at a loss how to account for it , but suggested that nature's abhorrence of a vacuum ceased when the water ...
Side 3
... feet in height , it ought in like manner to be balanced by a proportionately shorter column of a heavier liquid . In 1643 he tried the celebrated experiment with mercury , and found that a column of this liquid was kept up only twenty ...
... feet in height , it ought in like manner to be balanced by a proportionately shorter column of a heavier liquid . In 1643 he tried the celebrated experiment with mercury , and found that a column of this liquid was kept up only twenty ...
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... feet above the level of the water to be raised . CDE F , is a pipe leading from the cistern to the reservoir . many ingenious instruments . In 1681 he was sworn " Master of Mechanics " to the King [ Annals of Windsor , by Tighe and ...
... feet above the level of the water to be raised . CDE F , is a pipe leading from the cistern to the reservoir . many ingenious instruments . In 1681 he was sworn " Master of Mechanics " to the King [ Annals of Windsor , by Tighe and ...
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... feet high and fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter , had raised into the air seven or eight boys who held the end of the rope ( see Fig . 9 ) ; and that it had in like manner raised from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds ' weight . Another ...
... feet high and fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter , had raised into the air seven or eight boys who held the end of the rope ( see Fig . 9 ) ; and that it had in like manner raised from 1,000 to 1,200 pounds ' weight . Another ...
Side 25
... feet , not violently , but with a moderate and equal force ; and four or five boys whom M. Colbert caused to take hold of the rope attached to the machine were lifted with great ease into the air . Some difficulty , however , was ...
... feet , not violently , but with a moderate and equal force ; and four or five boys whom M. Colbert caused to take hold of the rope attached to the machine were lifted with great ease into the air . Some difficulty , however , was ...
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