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Title: American homes and gardens
Identifier: americanhomesgar81911newy (find matches)
Year: 1905 (1900s)
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Subjects: Architecture, Domestic; Landscape gardening
Publisher: New York : Munn and Co
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Fig. 5—Brick and stone tower with tank in the enclosure at top Fig. 6—The tank and windmill is built on top of the tower Fig. 7—A wooden tower with windmil top and tank enclosed underneath at done the equivalent of lifting the water to the height of 101.7 feet. Now, all this is very simple in principle. We can, in fact, get any reasonable pressure desired by pumping in water and compressing the trapped air. A little thought will, however, show us that perhaps the practical carrying out of the principle will not be as easy as it looks. There are two principal difficulties : The air as it is compressed will seems that a boiler that will not leak steam under pressure may nevertheless leak air under pressure. The particles of air are, apparently, smaller in size, or are otherwise com- petent to push their way more successfully through minute cracks. The aiMank must, accordingly, be better than a steam boiler needs to be. One of the principal builders of pneumatic apparatus states that the organization of the best
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Fig. 8—A stucco tower with the tank surrounded by a balcony Fig. 9—A tower designed in the form of a windmill

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  • bookid:americanhomesgar81911newy
  • bookyear:1905
  • bookdecade:1900
  • bookcentury:1900
  • booksubject:Architecture_Domestic
  • booksubject:Landscape_gardening
  • bookpublisher:New_York_Munn_and_Co
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Biodiversity_Heritage_Library
  • bookleafnumber:487
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