Hydrostatics and pneumatics / [Dionysius Lardner].

  • Lardner, Dionysius, 1793-1859.
Date:
1831
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    INDEX A. Adulteration of milk ; of spirits, page 165. Air, its colour, 226; has weight, 228; the effects of its inertia, 230; proofs of its materiality; impenetrable, 232; its elasticity; ' its elasticity explained, 235. Air-pump, 290 ; experiments with. Air-vessel of forcing-pumps, 322. Air-balloon, 334. Air-gun, 333. Alloys, 161. Amazon, river, its disappearance, 65. Animals, birds, and fishes, their shape explained, 193. Archimedes, his experiment on Hiero’s crown, 165 ; his screw, 206. Aristotle, his knowledge of the weight of air, 247. Arlandes, Marquis de, his ascent in a balloon, 339. Atmosphere, its probable limits, 236. Atmospheric air, its properties, 226 ; its elasticity equal to its weight, 243; its height, 266; its pressure, 267; pressure bursts a bladder, 298; effects in the higher strata observed in bal- loons, 344. B. Balance, hydrostatic, 152. Ballast, its effect in ships, 130. Ballcock explained, 101. Balloons, air, 334; formed of air rarefied by heat, 336; Montgol- fier’s, 338; Pilatre de Rozier’s ascent; Marquis de Arlandes’ ascent; first inflated with hydro- gen, 339; Blanchard’s ascent, 341; ascents of Gay-Lussac, Biot, and Garnerin; their military use, 344. Barker’s mill, 204. Barometer discovered by Torricelli, 248 ; applied to the measurement of heights by Pascal, 249; con- struction of, 250; diagonal, 257; wheel, 258; its uses; a weather glass, 262; measuring heights by, 264. Bellows, hydrostatic, 17; domestic forge, 270. Birdcage fountain, 274. Birds ; their flight depends on air, 231. Blanchard, his ascent in a balloon, 341. Boiling water, the process of, 112. Bramah, his press, 13. Breathing accounted for, 269. Buoyancy explained, 97. C. Camel for lifting vessels over shoals, 102. Campbell, his experiment on a bottle sunk in the sea, 45. Canals, construction of, 65; locks of, 66; their defect as means of transport, 194. Cataracts, their heights, 63. Chain pump, 216. Cities, method of supplying them with water, 48. 68. Clocks, ornamental fountain, 61. Colour of air, 226. Compressibility, 223. Condenser, 308. Condensing syringe, 305. Contrivance to prevent foundering, 100. Cream floats on milk, 110. Cupping, 303. D. Dectot, his hydreoles, 118. Density, 143. De Parcieux’s hydrometer, 160. Diagonal barometer, 257.