 | Olinthus Gregory - 1806 - 590 pagine
...conftrufting a tight pilton. But we recommend thick and ftrong leather, while our prefent realoning feems to render thin leather preferable. If the leather be thin, and the folid pifton in any part does not prefs it gently to the barrel, there will be in this part an unbalanced... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 582 pagine
...said is enough for supporting our directions for constructing a. tight piston. But we recommend thick and strong leather, while our present reasoning seems...gently to the barrel, there will be in this part an unbalanced pressure of the incumbent column of water, which would instantly burst even a strong leather... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - 1815 - 632 pagine
...tight piston. But we recommend thick and strong leather, while our present reasoning seems to rent'er thin leather preferable. If the leather be thin, and...gently to the barrel, there will be in this part an unbalanced pressure of the incumbent column of water, which would instantly burst even a strong leather... | |
 | John Robison - 1822 - 736 pagine
...said is enough for supporting our directions for constructing a tight piston. But we recommended thick and strong leather, while our present reasoning seems...gently to the barrel, there will be in this part an unbalanced pressure of the incumbent column of water, which would instantly burst even a strong leather... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1839 - 554 pagine
...constructing a tight piston. But we recommend thick and strong leather, while our present reasoning teems to render thin leather preferable. If the leather...gently to the barrel, there will be in this part an unbalanced pressure of the incumbent column of water, which would instantly burst even a strong leather... | |
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... pressure whatever can force a passage. We shall recur to this again when describing the various contrivances of valves, &c. What we have said is enough for supporting our directions for constructing a. tight piston. But we recommend thick and strong... 