 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 lehte
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn.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... | |
 | William Marrat - 1810 - 512 lehte
...whiph, if the open end of the tube be immersed in a vessel of mercury, the mercury will be forced into the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the mercury in the vessel. When it is filled to about half way up the tube, there is then mercury enough... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 lehte
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn.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 - 1813 - 712 lehte
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn.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 - 680 lehte
...quicksilver. Ifill the tube with the quicksilver, and then put my finger upon the mouth, so as to preventanr of it from running out ; I now invert the tube, and...water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the srunt irinciple, in the present instance, why does he water stand 33 or 34 feet, but the mer:ury only... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 lehte
...quicksilver run out of the tube ? Father. I will answer you, by asking another question : What is tbe reason that water will stand in an exhausted tube,...you not recollect that mercury is 14 times heavier than water? therefore, if the pressure of the atmosphere will balance 34 feet of water, it ought, on... | |
 | Charles Hutton - 1815 - 686 lehte
...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... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1819 - 394 lehte
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn.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 lehte
...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... | |
 | Daniel B. Smith - 1842 - 326 lehte
...OF CHEMISTRY. it will be found that a column of the fluid metal, 30 inches high, will be sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the mercury in the vessel. The weight of a column of mercury one inch square, and 30 inches high, is nearly... | |
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The mercury is sustained in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the fluid in the cup. 
