 | Denison Olmsted - 1832 - 378 pages
...required at each stroke to lift the piston. The column of water discharged at each stroke, is equal to a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston, and whose altitude is the length of the stroke. The quantity may therefore be found, in cubic feet, by multiplying... | |
 | William Grier - 1832 - 366 pages
...inches in 12 feet length. The resistance which is opposed to a pump rod in raising water, is ~equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and height the height of the surface of the water in the body of the pump above... | |
 | William Grier - 1836 - 380 pages
...forcing pump. The piston rod of a forcing pump should be loaded with a weight sufficient to balance a column of water, whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the excess of the height of the spout from the level of the water in the cistern above 68 254 PNEUMATICS.... | |
 | William Grier - 1836 - 384 pages
...inches in 12 feet length. The resistance which is opposed to a pump rod in raising water, is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and height the height of the surface of the water in the body of the pump above... | |
 | William Grier - 1842 - 320 pages
...inches in 12 feet length. The resistance which is opposed to a pump rod in raising water, is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the area of the piston, and height the height of the surface of the water in the body of the pump above... | |
 | Denison Olmsted, Ebenezer Strong Snell - 1845 - 612 pages
...continuing the process, water will accumulate in the tube DE, until it acquires the necessary elevation, and is discharged. Or, to enunciate the principle...level in the reservoir. It is evident also from what hfis been said on the suction pump, that the valve V should be less than thirty-four feet above the... | |
 | Julius Ludwig Weisbach - 1847 - 664 pages
...general rule, therefore, is true that : the pressure of water against a plane surface is equivalent to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface and whose height is the head of water of the surface. , It must further be stated, that this... | |
 | 1849 - 656 pages
...same sort of pressure that there is upon a lock-gate, that is, a hydrostatic pressure." Q. " Equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface pressed, and height the depth of the centre of gravity ?" — "Yes." Captain Vetch had stated... | |
 | 1849 - 654 pages
...same sort of pressure that there is upon a lock-gate, that is, a hydrostatic pressure." Q. " Equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface pressed, and height the depth of the centre of gravity ?" — "Yes." Captain Vetch had stated... | |
 | Frederick Overman - 1851 - 452 pages
...square vessel with vertical sides is filled with water, the pressure against the vessel's sides is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the surface, and whose height is the head of water upon that surface. If the gate A, fig. 46, is four feet... | |
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... is equal to the weight of a column of water whose base is the section of the piston, and whose height is the distance of the level of the water in the barrel AC, above the level in the reservoir. 
