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Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water-works of London, and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries / By William Matthews.

William Matthews

Date:: 1835

Credit: Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water-works of London, and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries / By William Matthews. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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TABLE JI. Comparison of the theoretical, with the real discharge of Water, from an Orifice of one inch diameter, at different heights, by Bossur. | Height of the Water in the)}The discharges as Reservoir calculated from above the cen-|theory in cubic in- The real discharges A from experiments, The nage cient in cubic inches. tre of the ori- ches. fice. Paris Feet. 1 4381 2722 1 to 0°62133 2 6196 3846 1 ,, 0:62073 S 7089 4710 l-,, 0°62064 4 8763 94356 I ,, 0°62034 3 O74 6075 1 ,, 0°62010 6 10,732 6654 1 ,, 0°62000 i 11,592 7183 1 ,,-0°61965 8 12,392 1672 f,-O-6T1 I u 13,144 8135 1 ,, 0°61892 10 13,855 8574 1 ,, 0°61883 il 14,530 8990 Les90:61873 12 15,180 9384 1 ,, 0°61819 13 13,797 9764 1 ,, 0-61810 14 16,393 10,130 L -,, O61795 | 15 16,968 10,472 1 ,, O0-61716 | TABLE III. Orifice. cular Ori-|jter run- charged. fice. ning. Feet. |Imches.} Lines. | Parts.| Inches. |Minutes.] Feet. | Inches. | Lines. 6 8 + 0 15 | 542 10 6 I] 7 1 0 3 12 | 570 ll 8 | 21 Z 4 0 8 | 521 S 7 | GO) 15 ei A Ocha’ 30 | 488] 8 | 3) By 8 8 0 2 28 | 589 6 4 | 21 10 10 0 20 | 375 a) 1@:~| | Got, | say barf 60 | 247; 4 | 3 | | .

Hydraulia; an historical and descriptive account of the water-works of London, and the contrivances for supplying other great cities, in different ages and countries / By William Matthews.

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