Reservoir

Examples

• The principle of the air brake is to store up compressed air in a reservoir on the locomotive by means of a steam pump. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It was as if some reservoir of black emotion had burst within him, and swamped him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Omitting the laboratory structures, it had only about seven houses, the best looking of which Edison lived in, a place that had a windmill pumping water into a reservoir. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• From the bottom of the cylinder a tube runs down into the well or reservoir, and water from the well has access to the cylinder through another outward-moving valve. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• A vacuum is produced in this reservoir by the use of an air pump, while the acid is being constantly stirred. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• A reservoir containing highly compressed air is fixed on the diver’s back, which supplies him with air by a self-regulating apparatus at a pressure corresponding to his depth. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• It is possible to employ it as a kind of reservoir of anecdotes to be drawn on to inculcate special moral lessons on this virtue or that vice. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Water to be frozen is placed in a vessel connected by a pipe to a reservoir containing sulphuric acid. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The labours of others have raised for us an immense reservoir of important facts. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Usually a leak in a dam or reservoir occurs near the bottom. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• This air passing through a train pipe connected by hose couplings between cars charges an auxiliary reservoir under each car. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• A series of holes can be punched round the lower edge of a fruit can, thus affording a distributing reservoir. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The sea is a vast reservoir of potash, and seaweed, especially the giant kelp, absorbs large quantities of this potash. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• When he wishes to ascend he simply inflates his dress from the reservoir. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If a reservoir has a depth of 100 feet, the pressure exerted upon each square foot of its floor is 62. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• These cranes, adapted for the lifting and carrying of enormous loads, were worked by hydraulic pressure obtained from elevated tanks or reservoirs, as above indicated. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Artificial reservoirs are usually constructed on the near outskirts of a town in order that the frictional force lost in transmission may be reduced to a minimum. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In some cities where the water is very hard, as in Columbus, Ohio, it is softened and filtered at public expense, before it leaves the reservoirs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The crippling stones of the pavement, with their many little reservoirs of mud and water, had no footways, but broke off abruptly at the doors. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The English system consists more in the use of extended and successive reservoirs or beds of sand alone, or aided by the use of the sulphate. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Does it bring it to its reservoirs in the most economic way possible, and is there any legitimate excuse for the scarcity of water which many communities face in dry seasons? Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Municipal improvements were undertaken in Panama and Colon and the various settlements in the Canal Zone, such as the construction of reservoirs, pavements and a system of modern roads. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Touched by such superfluity of simple confidence in a woman of her mature years, I opened the ample reservoirs of my nature and absorbed it all. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• These are practically small steel reservoirs full of water and connecting with the city pipes. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In just as careful a manner, the size and the strength of municipal reservoirs and pumps must be calculated. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The Bursting of Dams and Reservoirs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But as a substitute for such tanks or reservoirs he invented the _Accumulator_. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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