 | James Ferguson - 1764 - 322 pages
...deeper and deeper, until the ftrength of the bladder be overcome by the weight of the air ; and then it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun.—If a flat piece of glafs be laid upon the open top of this receiver, and joined to it by a flat... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1776 - 546 pages
...deeper and deeper, until the / ftrength of the bladder be overcome by the weight of the air; and then it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun.— If a flat piece of glafs be laid upon the open top of this receiver, and joined to it by a flat ring of... | |
 | John Imison - 1796 - 476 pages
...deeper and deeper, until the ftrength ofthe bladder be overcome by the weight of the air; and then it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun. If a flat piece of glafs be laid upon the top of this receiver, and joined to it by a flat rmg of wet... | |
 | Thomas Hodson - Education - 1802 - 556 pages
...contains fquare inches, as before. If a piece of wet bladder be tied over the end of the glafs (fg. 6), and, when it is dry, the glafs be exhaufted of...out of the receiver, the preflure of the outward air willfoon break the fl»t piece of glafs to pieces. Let the two brafs cups A and B (fg. 7) be joined... | |
 | James Smith - Industrial arts - 1815 - 942 pages
...grow deeper and deeper, until tbestrength of the bladder be overcome by the weight of the air, when it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun. When the receiver is small, it will require some time, and a very perfect exhaustion, to succeed in... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...deeper and deeper, until the strength of the bladder be overcome by the weight of the air ; and then it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun. — If a flat piece of glass be laid upon the open top of this receiver, and joined to it by a flat ring of... | |
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... of the bladder be overcome by the weight of the air; and then it will break with a report as loud as that of a gun.— If a flat piece of glafs be laid upon the open top of this receiver, and joined to it by a flat ring of wet leather between them;... 