 | James Ferguson, David Brewster - Astronomy - 1806 - 532 pages
...hogshead split in this manner. A small, though strong tube of tin, twenty feet high, was inserted in This machine acts upon the same principle as the one...this simple machine, in making the upward pressure of fluiste evident to sight. The cause of reciprocating springs, and of ebbing and flowing weilst explained.*... | |
 | James Ferguson - Celestial globes - 1814 - 520 pages
...acts upon the same principle, as the one last described, concerning the hydrostatical paradox. FoY, the upward pressure against every part of the board,...making the upward pressure of fluids evident to sight. • Upon this principle, it has been justly affirmed by some writers on natural philosophy, that a... | |
 | James Ferguson - Astronomy - 1839 - 554 pages
...even though the bore of the tube should be so small, that less than an ounce of water would fill it. This machine acts upon the same principle, as the...in making the upward pressure of fluids evident to sight.1*0 Nate ISO. The application of this principle in hydrostatics to the construction of a very... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Agricultural innovations - 1841 - 484 pages
...fill this tube with water, and it is evident that it will press upon AB, where the tube is inserted, with a force equal to the weight of the water in the tube. Suppose this to be one pound ; then the pressure on the inside of the vessel will exceed one pound... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1856 - 866 pages
...deter«nn« how nraeh of it will be below the surface. We ban already Ken that any solid ia a liquid is pressed upward with a force equal to the weight of the water whose room it occupies. Now, a floating body must be pressed up with a force equal to its own weight,... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Physics - 1859 - 468 pages
...will a solid immersed in it displace? What is Buoyancy ? 310. When a solid is immersed in a liquid it will be pressed upward with a force equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces. 311. A solid immersed in water will displace as much of the liquid as is equal... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...of the board (which the bladder touches) is equal in area to the area of the bore of the tube, and will be pressed upward with a force equal to the weight...making the upward pressure of fluids evident to sight." (" Supplement to Ferguson's Book of Lectures on Mechanics," &c. Lond., 1767, pp. 25 — 27; also, "Supplement... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 832 pages
...determine how much of it will be below the surface. We have already seen that any solid in a liquid is pressed upward with a force equal to the weight of the Water whose room it occupies. Now, a floating body must be pressed up with a force equal to its own weight,... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...of the board (which the bladder touches) is equal in area to the area of the bore of the tube, and will be pressed upward with a force equal to the weight...making the upward pressure of fluids evident to sight." (" Supplement to Ferguson's Book of Lectures on Mechanics," &c. Lond., 1767, pp. 25 — 27 ; also,... | |
 | David Ames Wells - 1871 - 462 pages
...a solid immerBed in it displace? "What is Buoy ancy ? 310. When a solid is immersed in a liquid it will be pressed upward with a force equal to the weight of the liquid it displaces. 311. A solid immersed in water will displace as much of the liquid as is equal... | |
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For, the upward pressure against every part of the board (which the bladder touches) equal in area to the area of the bore of the tube, will be pressed upward with a force equal to the weight of the water in the tube ; and the sum of all these pressures,... 
