Word: piping
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...hydraulic machinery in the engineering building will be ready for use in a short time. The large stand-pipe has been kept full of water for several days to test the pressure it can stand without leaking. The tank into which the water is to flow has just been put in place. The weighing tanks have not arrived. When they are put in place the machinery will be practically ready...
...large space in the northeast corner of the room is devoted to hydraulic machinery. A stand-pipe five feet in diameter and twenty-two feet in height extends above the level of the third floor. This is for experimenting with the flow of water through apertures of different sizes. Water will be pumped into the pipe from a cistern and will flow through an aperture, provided with nozzels of various sizes, into a tank. At the other end of the tank there will be a weir, and the flow of water over this can be measured. Then the water will...
...Pipe players, Arthur A. Bryant...
...Pipe players, Henry I. Bowles...
...ancient usage was followed exactly, a few of the passages should be sung outright. But there will be no singing, and in such parts the only difference will be a greater richness of accompaniment. One of the melodies has been composed to conform to the scale of an ancient pipe now preserved in the British Museum, but with this exception no attempt has been made to reproduce the peculiarities of ancient music. The actual pipers (an oboe, two clarinets and a bassoon) will be stationed behind the scenes, while upon the stage will stand a dummy flute-player with...