How Geysers Work.
By means of a model geyser an inventor aims to show in a simple manner the exact way in which a real geyser works.
The instrument is quite simple. A small aspirator, with a bent glass tube exit, acts as an intermittent siphon, and the water is discharged into a half-inch iron pipe, the long horizontal limb of which measures about thirteen centimetres. The glass siphon tube slips through a rubber ring at the top of the pipe, though a cork would doubtless serve the same purpose, a 3 3 the lower closed end of the tube is heated by the equivt ?nt of abou four burners and shti.it be placed ; shov ,as if
Water drips into the aspirator at such a rate that in a few minutes a jet of steam about six feet high and water about two feet high appears with many appropriate gurglings.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IX, 30 August 1902, Page 516
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150How Geysers Work. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXIX, Issue IX, 30 August 1902, Page 516
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