 | Goulds Pumps, Inc - Pumping machinery - 1888 - 412 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches, or a column of water 33.9 feet high. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water, multiply the height of the column... | |
 | K. L. Armstrong - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 460 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 pounds per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water, multiply the height of the column... | |
 | Engineering - 1905 - 1266 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 pounds per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high at sea level. THE STEAM TURBINE. The steam turbine is by no means new to the readers of this or other... | |
 | Steam-boilers - 1895 - 220 pages
...the atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per sq. in., so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches, or a column of water 33.9 feet high. The following analyses of water taken from various localities are those made by the Keystone Chemical... | |
 | Aluminum Company of America - Aluminum - 1897 - 294 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per square inch, so that wilh a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high. 7'u find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water. Multiply the height of the column... | |
 | Frederic Milton Johnson - Assaying - 1897 - 116 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 pounds per square inch, so that, with a perfect vacuum, it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches, or a column of water 33.9 feet high. To find the capacity of a cylinder in gallons: Multiplying the area in inches by the stroke in inches... | |
 | Knowles Steam Pump Works - Pumping machinery - 1898 - 696 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high at sea level. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water, multiply the height... | |
 | James Joseph Lawler - Hot-water heating - 1899 - 424 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high at sea level. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of column of water, multiply the height... | |
 | Pittsburgh Reduction Company - Aluminum - 1904 - 298 pages
...atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 Ibs. per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high. To find the pressure in pounds per square inch of a column of water. Multiply the height of the column... | |
 | William Henry Booth - Feed-water purification - 1906 - 408 pages
...170 180 73-63 77.96 — — — t pounds to the square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches, or a column of water 33.9 feet high. Doubling the diameter of a pipe increases its capacity four times. Friction of liquids in pipes increases... | |
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The mean pressure of the atmosphere is usually estimated at 14.7 pounds per square inch, so that with a perfect vacuum it will sustain a column of mercury 29.9 inches or a column of water 33.9 feet high at sea level. 
