 | Thomas Tredgold - Steam-engines - 1827 - 540 pages
...212° for some minutes. Then a few drops of quicksilver may require to be added at D, till L and / be in the same horizontal plane. The further conduct...over L to restore the initial level, or volume at /, by equipoising the progressive elasticity. The column above L being the accession of elastic force.... | |
 | John Scott Russell - Locomotives - 1841 - 436 pages
...212° for some minutes. Then a few drops of quicksilver may be required to be added to D', till L and f be in the same horizontal plane. The further conduct...added over L to restore the initial level or volume at I', by equipoising the progressive elasticity. The column above L being measured, represents the succession... | |
 | John Scott Russell - Locomotives - 1841 - 400 pages
...for some minutes. Then a few drops of quicksilver may be required to be added to D', till L and I' be in the same horizontal plane. The further conduct...experiment differs in no respect from what has been already described—the liquid in C is progressively heated, and at each stage mercury is progressively added... | |
 | Physics - 1819 - 502 pages
...212° for some minutes. Then a few drops of quicksilver may require to be added to D" till L" and I" be in the same horizontal plane. The further conduct...over L" to restore the initial level, or volume at /", by equipoising the progressive elasticity. The column above L" being measured, represents the succession... | |
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... then a little liquid is passed through it to the sealed end. Heat is now applied by an argand flame to the bottom of C, which is filled with oil or water, and the temperature is kept steadily at 212° for some minutes. Then a few drops of quicksilver... 