 | Thomas Webster - Physics - 1837 - 512 pages
...draw the other in its direction. This motion will go on continuously, and the siphon will be kept full by the pressure of the air on the surface of the water in the vessel from which it is drawn off. Were the tube not to be kept constantly full there would... | |
 | John Charles Snowball - Hydrostatics - 1838 - 114 pages
...17. To explain the construction of the common barometer, and to shew that the mercury is sustained in it by the pressure of the air on the surface of the mercury in the basin. 27. Prop. 18. The pressure of the atmosphere is accurately measured by the weight... | |
 | University of Cambridge - 1849 - 560 pages
...17. To explain the construction of the common barometer, and to shew that the mercury is sustained in it by the pressure of the air on the surface of the mercury in the basin. Prop. 18. The pressure of the atmosphere is accurately measured by the weight... | |
 | T. Baker - Dynamics - 1851 - 160 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space AC. The air in the pipe will thus become rarefied, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at W will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore, the water will be forced a short... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1851 - 176 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space AC. The air in the pipe will thus become rarefied, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at W will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore, the water will be forced a short... | |
 | Thomas Baker - Dynamics - 1851 - 188 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space AC. The air in the pipe will thus become rarefied, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at W will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore, the water will be forced a short... | |
 | Thomas Baker - 1852 - 260 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space A c. The air in the pipe will thus become ranfied, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at w will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore the water will be forced a short... | |
 | Thomas Baker (C.E.) - 1852 - 268 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space A c. The air in the pipe will thus become rarified, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at w will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore the water will be forced a short... | |
 | Thomas Baker - Machine-tools - 1852 - 276 pages
...follow the piston and fill the empty space A c. The air in the pipe will thus become ranfied, and hence the pressure of the air on the surface of the water at w will be greater than the pressure of the air in AB, and therefore the water will be forced a short... | |
 | William Guy Peck - Mechanics - 1859 - 368 pages
...pass through the piston valve, and finally escape at the spout P. The water is raised to the piston by the pressure of the air on the surface of the water in the reservoir ; hence, the piston should not be placed at a greater distance above the level of... | |
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To explain the construction of the common barometer, and to shew that the mercury is sustained in it by the pressure of the air on the surface of the mercury in the basin. 
