 | Richard Turner - 1792 - 296 σελίδες
...the higher region is more fubtile and more coldthan that of the middle ; and that of the middle ftill finer than the lower. . The weight of a column of air, reaching from the furface of the earth to the. top of the atmofphere, is equal to that of a column of water, of the fame... | |
 | Richard Turner - 1795 - 302 σελίδες
...the air is compofed of a high, middle, and lower region. The air of the higher region is more fubtile and more cold than that of the middle ; and that of...lower. The weight of a column of air, reaching from the furface of the earth to the top of the atmofptere, is equal to that of a column of water, of the fame... | |
 | Thomas Dick - 1799 - 200 σελίδες
...cistern; because the weight of a column of water, about thirty-two or thirty-three feet high, is equal to the weight of a column of air reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. The pressure of the atmosphere upon the water of the vessel, or cistern, produces this effect. It might... | |
 | Charles Peirce - 1811 - 266 σελίδες
...This air is composed of a high, middle, and lower region. The air of the higher region is more subtile and more cold than that of the middle ; and that of the middle ftill finer than the lower. O^ What is the composition of meteors ? A. Vapors and exhalations, Vapors... | |
 | Encyclopaedias, John Millard - 1813 - 712 σελίδες
...Thus it is found, by means of a barometer (see the next chapter) that the weight of a column of air from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is on a medium equivalent to the pressure of a column of mercury of equal base, in the tube of the barometer,... | |
 | John Millard - 1813 - 704 σελίδες
...Thus it is found, by means of a barometer (see the next chapter) that the weight of a column of air from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is on a medium equivalent to the pressure of a column of mercury of equal base, in the tube of the barometer,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1814 - 420 σελίδες
...because the weight of a column of water 33 feet high, is equal to the weight of as thick a PLATE x. column of air, reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere : so that there will then be an equilibrium, and, consequently, though there would be weight enough... | |
 | Luke Herbert - 1824 - 394 σελίδες
...the Syphon quite emptied of air ; because the weight of a column o£ water 33 feet high is equal to the weight of a column of air reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. Mercury may be drawn through a Syphon in the same manner as water ; but then the utmost height of the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 426 σελίδες
...from which we may infer that a column of air, having a square inch for its base, and which extends from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, weighs about fifteen pounds. The atmospheric engine is a machine whose efficacy depends on the principle... | |
 | 1829 - 500 σελίδες
...from which we may infer that a column of air, having a square inch for its base, and which extends from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, weighs about fifteen pounds*. The atmospheric engine is a machine whose efficacy depends on the principle... | |
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This will cause the air at the equator to stand more than seven miles higher from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere than at the north pole. 
