OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's. It was one of the premier scientific journals of early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. It is a useful publication for the purposes of reasearching some of the beginnings of modern science.
OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's. It was one of the premier scientific journals of early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. It is a useful publication for the purposes of reasearching some of the beginnings of modern science.
OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's. It was one of the premier scientific journals of early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. It is a useful publication for the purposes of reasearching some of the beginnings of modern science.
OCR by The Paperless Office. The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was a publication from the mid 1700's. It was one of the premier scientific journals of early industrial era. This is one page from that document, taken from volume 50, published in 1757. It is a useful publication for the purposes of reasearching some of the beginnings of modern science.
town the ead of the tube, in order to fit the imam-
cent for new experimenr . lf, by means of bladder, the ka.watex can be keyi out ot the Oaf, this martiment may be made m thew the COMM. dOlgref; Of heat ; bur men then, cxner to lender it kis bulky, it tnay be better to tinily the waist oi them as in the !art isilleument. kwger lqg of thpeklphon May in that cafe he male a: ihrxt at you ; orgy making the ball B Log c000gls to receive all the mercury, which may Ix dries iato it by heat. If thermometers of this kind were to be lent up thc tee by means of a kite, they might be made bko thwe propakd for the fca but it would not be weary to kaw them open. AU it mold be defirable to make than es (mall es peak they Should be mode co as not to thew the comma degas of beat t and it would alfu, ust dm amount, be minvenient to omit the thread of giM placed within the fhower leg of the fyphon Thn thread of glafs ia placed there fig.3. sod 4. a order to make the mercury till intu the ball A. it 3. ix cyhoder C. fig. 4. in finalke drops, and alfu o facilitate the filling the fhorter kg with mercury. The latter purpole ntay be anfwered by having a ball Wan towards thc bottom of the (honer kg, a. n aked in fig. 4. at M : for as loon IS the mcrcur3 km ow of the cylinder by heat gets to that ball, s till pals by the frith of wine. The other pur- ser nay probably be anfwered by having the tithe comefted as much at pollibk at ff. la the foregoing inftrissuents the tubes made till: I Inn of a large bore, as moll of the afore :is thi:n