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... mercury , which I conceive to be preferable to water on many accounts , and principally because it does not adhere or evaporate like water ; C is a reservoir , which , when the screw is turned round , receives the mercury which falls ...
... mercury , which I conceive to be preferable to water on many accounts , and principally because it does not adhere or evaporate like water ; C is a reservoir , which , when the screw is turned round , receives the mercury which falls ...
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... mercury falls into the receiver F , from whence it again falls by its spout into the cistern G , where the constant revolution of the screw takes it up again as before . ' E B c Fig . 15 . Observe how the inventor has chosen a really ...
... mercury falls into the receiver F , from whence it again falls by its spout into the cistern G , where the constant revolution of the screw takes it up again as before . ' E B c Fig . 15 . Observe how the inventor has chosen a really ...
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... mercury ( quicksilver ) is 13.568 times the weight of water and by far the heaviest available fluid , a mercury baro- meter could be made much smaller and more compact than one utilising any other fluid . It was soon discovered that in ...
... mercury ( quicksilver ) is 13.568 times the weight of water and by far the heaviest available fluid , a mercury baro- meter could be made much smaller and more compact than one utilising any other fluid . It was soon discovered that in ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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