"Pounds per square inch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
