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The Artisan, or, Mechanic's instructor : containing a popular, comprehensive and systematic view of the following sciences ... also biographical notices of eminent scientific men, enriched by portraits : with many interesting and valuable articles relating to the mechanical and useful arts : the whole intended as a companion to the institutes (1825)

Carey, George G · London : Printed for William Cole · leaf 180

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p, with any velocity that may be ing or forcing pumps, though naturally required, and with little resistance from intermitting, may be rendered continual by friction, while the loss of force, from the the elasticity of the air condensed in what frequent accelerations and retardations of is called… … whole being furnished with proper valves Here the piston is solid, and when to prevent the escape of the water when drawn up rarifies the air within the pipe the machine is at rest. c, by which means the water will rise in it, As soon as the rotation becomes suffi- and ascend through the valve d :…

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