 | 1874 - 608 pages
...instrument has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb; n the outer coating or protecting cylinder; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...column from that of the bulb in the tube, thereby ensuring that none but the mercury in the tube can be transferred into the indicating column ; E is... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - 1874 - 664 pages
...instrument has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb ; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder; C is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...compressed ; D is a small glass plug on the principle of our Patent Maximum Thermometer, which cuts off, in the moment of turning, the mercury in the column... | |
 | James Samuelson, William Crookes - 1874 - 596 pages
...instrument has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder ; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...compressed ; D is a small glass plug, on the principle of voL. 1v. (NS) 2 N 278 Progress in Science. [April, Negretti and Zambra's patent maximum thermometer,... | |
 | Spencer Fullerton Baird - 1875 - 892 pages
...and which, in the momont of turning, cuts off the mercury in the column C from that in the bulb A, thereby insuring that none but the mercury in the...tube can be transferred into the indicating column E. D is an enlargement made at the bend of the tube, so as to enable the mercury to pass quickly from... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb ; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder ; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...and Zambra's patent maximum thermometer, which cuts ofiT, in the moment of turning, the mercury in the tube from that of the bulb, thereby insur- FlG.... | |
 | 1874 - 600 pages
...instrument has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...column from that of the bulb in the tube, thereby ensuring that none but the mercury in the tube can be transferred into the indicating column ; E is... | |
 | United States Centennial Commission - 1884 - 1106 pages
...has been thus turned on its center. A is the bulb; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder; Cis the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if the...outer casing be compressed ; D is a small glass plug which insures that none but the mercury in the tube can be transferred into the indicating column;... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1893 - 732 pages
...Thermometer, general arrangement. its centre. A is the buIb; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder; c is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...outer casing be compressed; D is a small glass plug, as in Negretti and Zambra's maximum thermometer, which at the moment of turning cuts off the mercury... | |
 | 1871 - 604 pages
...has been thus turned on its centre. A is the bulb ; B the outer coating or protecting cylinder ; C is the space of rarefied air, which is reduced if...compressed ; D is a small glass plug on the principle of our Patent Maximum Thermometer, which cuts off. in the moment of turning, the mercury in the column... | |
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... thence into the right-hand tube, where it remains, indicating on a graduated scale the exact temperature at the time it was turned over. The woodcut shows the position of the mercury after the instrument has been thus turned on its centre. A is the... 
