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    • Hydraulic Press

    • Hydraulic Press

    • Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.)

    • ""The hydraulic press depends on Pascal's principle: The pressure throughout a closed system is constant. At one end of the system is a small area piston driven by a lever to increase the mechanical advantage. The small-diameter tubing...
    • Claravision
    • Papin's Digester

    • Papin's Digester

    • Scientific apparatus and instruments

    • This instrument allowed water to be heated to a temperature higher than boiling point at atmospheric pressure, resulting in considerably high pressure inside. Papin designed a model of a digester in 1680 that allowed a piston inside a cylinder to...
    • Silicon Valley History Online
    • Pneumatic Syringe

    • Pneumatic Syringe

    • Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.)

    • A stout tube closed at one end, and provided with a piston, for showing that the heat produced by compressing a gas will ignite substances.
    • Claravision
    • Papin's Digester

    • Papin's Digester

    • Scientific apparatus and instruments; Santa Clara University (Calif.)

    • This instrument allowed water to be heated to a temperature higher than boiling point at atmospheric pressure, resulting in considerably high pressure inside. Papin designed a model of a digester in 1680 that allowed a piston inside a cylinder to...
    • Claravision
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