 A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. A sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot : the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit of the thermometer passing through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit...  What to Observe: Or, The Traveller's Remembrancer - Page 463by Julian R. Jackson - 1841 - 577 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) - 1854 - 538 pages
...persons ; tables, A, A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 4 in diameter. B, A sliding tube of tin moving up and down in the pot; the head of the tube is closed,...thermometer passing through a collar of cork which D, Thermometer, with so much of the scale left only 09 may be desirable. E, Holes for the escape of... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1840 - 232 pages
...accompanying sketch and explanation, taken from Col. Sykes's pamphlet, show the whole apparatus required : A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. A sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot : the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit of... | |
 | John Gregory - 1843 - 350 pages
...a common tin pot, 9 inches high, by 2 inches in diameter ; B is a sliding tube of tin, which may be moved up and down in the pot : the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit the thermometer passing through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit when the thermometer is placed.... | |
 | Basil Jackson - 1847 - 410 pages
...required: — A, a common tin pot, 9 inches high, by 2 in the diameter. B, a sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot ; the head of the tube is closed,...through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit where the thermometer is placed. D, thermometer, with so much of the scale left out as may be desirable.... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1850 - 292 pages
...apparatus required : A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. A sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot : the head of the tube is closed,...through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit where the thermometer is placed. D. Thermometer, with as much of the scale left out as may be desirable.... | |
 | Edward Charles Frome - 1850 - 294 pages
...sketch and explanation, taken from Col. Sykes•s pamphlet, show the whole apparatus required : A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. A sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the pot : the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit of... | |
 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - 1851 - 826 pages
...thermometric scale has been determined by experiment, but not at regular intervals on the scale, nor A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. A sliding1 tube of the moving- up and down in the pot; the head of the tube is closed, but has a slit... | |
 | 1860 - 936 pages
...was continued for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour, and the height of the mercury was repeatedly A. A common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter. B. Л sliding tube of tin, moving up and down in the ascertained during that time, and the temperature... | |
 | 1873 - 1078 pages
...not so liable to injury as the mercurial barometer, being much more portable, and easily replaced. A. Common tin pot 9 inches high, by 2 in diameter....moved up and down in the pot ; the head of the tube U closed, but has a slit in it. C. to admit of a thermometer passing through a collar of cork, which... | |
 | Park Benjamin - 1878 - 994 pages
...liable to injury as the mercurial barometer, being much more portable, and easily replaced. Fig. 274 : A, common tin pot, 9 inches high by 2 in diameter....tube is closed, but has a slit in it, C, to admit of a thermometer passing through a collar of cork, which shuts up the slit when the thermometer is placed.... | |
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