 | William Nicholson - 1809 - 752 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water ; whereby it is forced into the space formerly occnpied by the air. Generally speaking, it is not a... | |
 | Royal Society (Great Britain) - Meteorology - 1809 - 792 pages
...otherwise leave void. But, on the contrary, if the uppermost vessel be open, during the agitation, the pressure of the atmosphere on the .surface of the water in that vessel, will force the water down into the middle one, as fast as the absorption of the fixed... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - Children's encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1813 - 712 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water. The water in a common or sucking pump is raised by this means, and rises to the height of 33 feet.... | |
 | John Millard - Handbooks, vade-mecums, etc - 1813 - 704 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water. The water in a common or sticking pump is laised by this means, and rises to the height of 33 feet.... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Astronomy - 1815 - 686 pages
...the water pushes up the valve c, and enters to supply the void left between с and u, being forced up by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water iu the well below. Next, the 28 ; where the lower valve и is moveable, being worked up and down with... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - 1815 - 282 pages
...it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the same principle, in the present instance, why does the... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 446 pages
...shorter, and therefore will, by its own gravity, run out at c, leaving a vacuum from D to E, did not the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the jar force it up the leg DE, and thus continually supply the place of the water in D c. Charles.... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Astronomy - 1815 - 680 pages
...it be plunged into a vessel of the same fluid ? Charles. In that case the water is kept in the tube by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water into which it is plunged. If you resort to the srunt irinciple, in the present instance, why does he... | |
 | Jeremiah Joyce - Science - 1815 - 264 pages
...great column of water, much less have power to raise it up. Father. The operation is effected entirely by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water, by which it is forced into the space formerly occupied by the air. This is not a sudden operation :... | |
 | William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...thirty-three feet within the pipe, supplying the place of the air thus withdrawn. This is effected by the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water; whereby it is forced into the space formerly occupied by the air. Generally speaking, it is not a sudden... | |
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We know now that the underlying principle is the same as in a mercurial barometer : it is the pressure of the atmosphere on the surface of the water in the well that pushes the water up into the pump. 
