 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1832 - 378 pages
...air pump, our knowledge of the atmosphere has been greatly enlarged. The Barometer. Fig. 205, Let us take a glass tube, about three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other. We fill the tube with quicksilver, and invert it in a vessel of the same fluid. The •column... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1835 - 374 pages
...air pump, our knowledge of the atmosphere has been greatly enlarged. Fig. 206. The Barometer. Let us take a glass tube, about three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other. We fill the tube with quicksilver, and invert it in a vessel of the same fluid. The column of... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1837 - 374 pages
...time suffered to escape by opening a stop-cock in the top of the machine. The Barometer, 295. Let us take a glass tube, about three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other. We fill the tube with quicksilver, and invert it in a vessel of the same fluid. The column of... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, Phelps (Mrs) - Physics - 1840 - 234 pages
...BAROMETER. Fig. C6. Fair Change f* "* 365. We will now examine the barometer. A tube, A, of nearly three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other, is filled with quicksilver, and then inverted in the cup B, which also contains quicksilver.... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1846 - 454 pages
...time suffered to escape by opening a stop-cock in the top of the machine. The Barometer. 295. Let us take a glass tube, about three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other. We • fill the tube with quicksilver, and invert it in a vessel of the same fluid. The column... | |
 | Mrs. Lincoln Phelps - Physics - 1848 - 330 pages
...words, baros, weight, and metron, measure, signifying to weigh the atmosphere. Let a tube, A, of nearly three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other, be filled with quicksilver and inverted in a 419. What fact respecting atmospheric pressure... | |
 | Denison Olmsted - Physics - 1860 - 492 pages
...atmospheres have been admitted. 403. Torricelli's experiment. — Let us take a glass tube (Fig. 199), about three feet in length, closed at one end and open at the other. We till the tube with mercury, and invert it in a vessel of the same fluid. The column immediately... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 516 pages
...POPULAR PHYSICS. In order to repeat TORRICELLI'S experiment, take a glass tube about three feet ill length. closed at one end and open at the other. Turning...finger, the mercury sinks in the tube until the column. AB, is about 30 inches high, when it comes to a state of equilibrium. In this condition, the mercury... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 510 pages
...surface, at the level of the sea. X'OPULAil I'HY&ICS. In order to repeat TOHUICKLU'S experiment, lake a glass tube about three feet in length, closed at...Then holding the finger over the open end} let it bo inverted in a vessel of mercury, as shown in Fig. 75, On removing the finger, the mercury sinks... | |
 | Adolphe Ganot - Physics - 1881 - 556 pages
...fifteen pounds on each square inch of surface, at the level of the sea. In order to repeat TORRICELLI'S experiment, take a glass tube about three feet in...inverted in a vessel of mercury, as shown in Fig. 119. On removing the finger, the mercury sinks in the tube until the column, AB, is about 30 inches... | |
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TOHRICELLI'S experiment, take a glass tube about three feet in length. closed at one end and open at the other. Turning the closed end downwards, let it be filled with mercury. Then holding the finger over the open end, let it be inverted in a vessel... 
