 | 1829 - 426 pages
...excess of its specific gravity over that of the oil may be reduced to one-twentieth, one thirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture, opening laterally. 3 2. Account of a method of measuring the resistance ofjiuids to bodies passing through... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1829 - 384 pages
...excess of its specific gravity over that of the oil may be reduced to one twentieth, one thirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument...cisterns, and by applying to the upper part of each a trumpet-mouth aperture, opening laterally. AMERICAN PATENTS. Improvement in water wheels for mills;... | |
 | 1829 - 860 pages
...that of the oil may be reduced to one-twentieth one-thirtieth, or any other assignable proper tion. The instrument may be converted into an areometer,...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture, opening laterally. esting communications; but the length of them leavi us no alternative.] LITERARY AND LEARNED.... | |
 | 1829 - 906 pages
...one.-tliirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument may be converted into an anemometer, by closing both the cisterns, and by applying to the upper part of each a trumpet-mouth aperture, opening laterally. J [Newton's Journal. On a Ntto Use of the Chromale of Potash.... | |
 | William Newton, Charles Frederick Partington - 1830 - 424 pages
...in a partition between portions of the atmosphere in which the pressures are unequal, the fluid in the corresponding half of the instrument will be depressed,...pictures, &c. for which he obtained the society's gold medal on a former occasion ; and took occasion to point out the superiority, in the accuracy of its... | |
 | 1830 - 318 pages
...depending upon the relative specific gravities of the two fluids, will, in the case of olive oil aad water, be about one-eleventh of the weight of the...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture, opening laterally.* SHOOTING STARS. A MR. JOHN TREAT, a respectable farmer and a man of veracity, states that... | |
 | 1830 - 814 pages
...one-thirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument may be converted into an aerometer, by closing both the cisterns, and by applying to the...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture, opening laterally. MR. MEIKLE' s Improved Syphon-Hydrometer. ABOUT two years ago Mr. Meikle published a description... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1833 - 486 pages
...one thirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument may be converted into an anemometer by closing both the cisterns, and by applying to the...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture opening laterally. Some Observations relating to the Function of Digestion. By APW Philip, MDFRSLSfE. Read... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1833 - 502 pages
...one thirtieth, or any other assignable proportion. The instrument may be converted into an anemometer by closing both the cisterns, and by applying to the upper part ot each a trumpet-mouthed aperture opening laterally. Some Observations relating to the Function of... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1829 - 604 pages
...suffer the oil to subside in the tube. By a slight variation in the form of this instrument ; that is by closing both the cisterns, and by applying to the...upper part of each a trumpet-mouthed aperture, opening laterally ; it may be made to serve the purpose of an Anemometer. Captain FLINDERS informs us that... | |
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... of water elevated. But the sensibility of the instrument might be increased at pleasure, by mixing with the water a greater or less quantity of alcohol, by which the excess of its specific gravity over that of the oil may be reduced to one-twentieth,... 