| 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 - Physics - 1865 - 518 pages
...GUERICKE? ( 107.) What is the pressure of tho atmosphert on a square inch ? In order to repeat TOHRICELLI'S experiment, take a glass tube about three feet in...inverted in a vessel of mercury, as shown in. Fig. 75. On removing the finger, the mercury sinks in the tube until the column. AB, is about 30 inches... | |
| 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, William Guy Peck - Physics - 1871 - 516 pages
...amounts to about 15 Ibs. on each square inch of surface, at the level of the sea. 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 the closed end downwards, let it be filled... | |
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