Scientific handicraft : a descriptive, illustrated, and priced catalogue of apparatus, suitable for the performance of elementary experiments in physics. Vol. 1, Mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and pneumatics / by John Joseph Griffin.
- John J. Griffin and Sons (Firm)
- Date:
- 1873
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Scientific handicraft : a descriptive, illustrated, and priced catalogue of apparatus, suitable for the performance of elementary experiments in physics. Vol. 1, Mechanics, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, and pneumatics / by John Joseph Griffin. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![Sliding rod in stuffing-box, 133 Smoke jacks, 150 Specific gravity, principle of, 5 7 experimental illustrations, 59 difference iu liquids, 58 in solids, 58 of solids and liquids, method of estimating, 61 of solids, determined by the hy- drostatic balance, 6r of liquids, determined by the hy- drostatic balance, 62 of a solid, determined by weigh- ing it in a bottle, 62 of a liquid determined by weigh- ing it in a bottle, 63 bottles for solid bodies, 6 2 for liquids, 63, 65 bottles, on the choice and use of, 67 various forms of, 65, 66. Specific gravity of a liquid estimated by weighing in a balance a quan- tity first measured by a pipette, 69 Specific gravity of a solid estimated by measuring the water it displaces, Specific gi-avity of a liquid estimated by means of the hydrometer, 73 Specific gravity of gases, 136 Specific gravity, table to facilitate calculations, 68 Spirit level, 39 Spouting jars for illustrating Torrl- celli's theorem, 83 Springs and fountains, classification of, 97. Stability and instability of flo.iting bodies, 80 Stopcocks, pneumatic, 130 Suspension board, i Syphon, 89 various forms of, 89 principle of action, 90 use in fitting complex forms of che- mical apparatus, Syphon barometer, 166 SypliDU fountain, 105 Syphon gauges, powers of, 112 various forms of, 129 Syplion toys, 92 Syringes for air, 127, 128 for water, 93 . Syringe and lead weight, 158 Systems of pulleys, 7,8, 10 Tail cylindrical receivers, 177 Tall plain jars, 177 Tallow holder, 135 Tantalus's cup, 92 Taper stand, 148 Three-globe apparatus, 159 Tilt hammer, 30 Top of tops, 28 Torricellian experiment, 163 Torricelli's theorem, 83 Tourniquet hydraulique, 48 Toys founded on pipettes, 87, 158 founded on syphons, 92 to illustrate adhesion, 19 Train of wheels, 29 Transfer plates, single, 133 double, 134 Undershot water-wheel, 108 Universal joint, 30 Upward piessm-e of the air, 157 Upward pressure of water, 48, 49 ] Valves, 95 butterfly valve, 96 bellows valve, 96 round spring valve, 96 conical valve, 96 oil silk valve, 96 Velocity of falling bodies, 20 Vernier, 32 Vibrating wire, 28 Volumetric analysis, 83 Washers, 152 Water, difficulty of freeing it from air, 142 falls solid in vacuo, 141 frfiezing it in vacuo, 152 pressure in all directions, 44 lateral pressure, 47 upward pressure, 48, 49 pressure proportionate to depth, 83 pressure on tlie two ends of a cone, 57 incompressibility, 46 weighed in a vessel with a loose bottom, 55 rises to a level in communicating vessels, 137 to colour blue, 38 to colour red, 38 Water hammer, straight, 141 V-formed, 141 fork-formed, 142](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21497230_0205.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
