 This done, we began to pour quicksilver into the longer leg of the siphon which by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg did by degrees streighten the included air; and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the air in the shorter leg...  Principles of Class Teaching - Page 429by Joseph John Findlay - 1902 - 442 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Chemistry - 1864 - 348 pages
...half its original hulk, " when," he writes, " we cast onr eye» upon the longer leg of the glass on which •we likewise pasted a list of paper carefully...into inches and parts, and we observed, not without delight and satisfaction, that t !«• quicksilver in that longer part of th" tube was twenty-nine... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1885 - 344 pages
...by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg, did by degrees streighten the included Air : and continuing this pouring in of Quicksilver till the...condensation reduced to take up but half the space it possess'd (I .say, possess'd not fill'd) before ; we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the Glass,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1885 - 366 pages
...was by condensation reduced to take up but half the space it possess'd (I say, possessed not fill'd) before ; we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the Glass, on which was likewise pasted a list of Paper carefully divided into Inches and parts, and we observed,... | |
 | Thomas Edward Thorpe - Chemistry - 1894 - 406 pages
...by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg, did by degrees straighten the included air ; and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the...into inches and parts, and we observed, not without delight and satisfaction, that the quicksilver in that longer part of the tube was 29 inches higher... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - Matter - 1894 - 388 pages
...by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg, did by degrees streighten the included Air : and continuing this pouring in of Quicksilver till the...condensation reduced to take up but half the space it possess'd (I say, possess'd not jttl'd) before ; we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the Glass,... | |
 | Robert Boyle, Emile Hilaire Amagat - Gas - 1899 - 128 pages
...* Selected from Boyle's New Physico - Mechanical Experiments, London, 1662. the included air : and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the...we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass, on which was likewise pasted a list of paper carefully divided into inches and parts, and we observed,... | |
 | Henry Crew - Physics - 1899 - 372 pages
...by its weight pressing up that in the shorter leg, did by degrees streighten the included air: and continuing this pouring in of quicksilver till the...we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass, on which was likewise pasted a list of paper carefully divided into inches and parts, and we observed,... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Physical laboratories - 1899 - 342 pages
...at the same height in both legs. " This done, we began pouring quicksilver into the longer leg . . . till the air in the shorter leg was by condensation...reduced to take up but half the space it possessed ... we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass . . . and we observed, not without delight and... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Physical laboratories - 1899 - 340 pages
...at the same height in both legs. " This done, we began pouring quicksilver into the longer leg . . . till the air in the shorter leg was by condensation...reduced to take up but half the space it possessed ... we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass . . . and we observed, not without delight and... | |
 | Henry Crew - Physics - 1899 - 372 pages
...say, possessed, not filled) before; we cast our eyes upon the longer leg of the glass, on which was likewise pasted a list of paper carefully divided...into inches and parts, and we observed, not without delight and satisfaction, that the quicksilver in that longer part of the tube was 29 inches higher... | |
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