- A
siphon (from
Ancient Gr**** σίφων (
síphōn) 'pipe, tube'; also
spelled syphon) is any of a wide
variety of
devices that
involve the flow of
liquids through...
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transfer more heat from the fire to a room's air) and
relied on an "inverted
siphon" to draw the fire's hot
fumes around the baffle. It was
intended to produce...
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mechanically are
called pressure gauges,
vacuum gauges or
compound gauges (vacuum & pressure). The
widely used
Bourdon gauge is a
mechanical device, which...
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amalgamations saw it also
operate 4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard-
gauge trains; the last broad-
gauge services were
operated in 1892. The GWR was the only company...
- to
prevent thermo-
siphoning which would allow heat to
escape to
locations where it is not wanted. Similarly, some
pressure gauges are
connected to systems...
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experiment he had made in
which a
siphon, led over a hill
about 21 m high,
failed to work. When the end of the
siphon was
opened in a reservoir, the water...
- The
Gauge War (or
Gauge Wars) was a
figurative war of
intense competition to
control new territory,
waged between expanding railway companies in Great...
- is a list of the
names of
broad gauge railway locomotives built in the
United Kingdom during the
heyday of that
gauge (which
ended in that
country by...
- it,
believing that the pull of
vacuum creates a
siphon and that the pull can be
overcome if the
siphon is high enough. In the 17th century, Evangelista...
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sucked into the
columns shown in the
venturi meter above. This is
called a
siphon, and is
caused by a
partial vacuum inside the
vertical columns. In many...
