"Pounds per square inch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... must be affixed to the machine, showing the steam pressure above forty-five pounds per square inch. ...
— Little Masterpieces of Science: - Invention and Discovery • Various
... must be capable of withstanding a pressure of five hundred pounds per square inch before they are lowered ...
— The Century Handbook of Writing • Garland Greever
... candles have been manufactured, in some cases by purely mechanical means, such as boiling together for some hours, at a pressure of several hundred pounds per square inch, neutral grease and water, when the water takes up the base, viz., glycerine, and leaves the grease as an acid grease. This same effect has been noticed in some steam boilers, where the same water, without admixture of fresh, has been used ...
— Scientific American Suppl. No. 299 • Various
... 1871, but none was found. A great flow of gas was developed, however, accompanied by a slight spray of salt water, and this has continued with little or no diminution to the present time. The gas in its escape has been discharged through a five-inch pipe, and at a pressure of from sixty to eighty pounds per square inch. The rolling mill of Messrs. Roger & Burchfield is on the opposite side of the river, and it has been for some years devoted to the production of fine grades of sheet iron from charcoal pig metal, by puddling and in knobbling ...
— The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 • Various |
