_Fig. 2._ Is a Barometer Tube, open at the Top H, and included in such a Receiver G B, as gives room for it to stand upright, and yet permits the Air to go backward or forward on its Surface, according as you pump the same out of or readmit the same into that Receiver. And this is done so, that the included Air C D, which supports the Mercury, by pressing on the Surface of that in its Bason E D, is confin'd within. This small Quantity of Air, on the Extraction of that in the Receiver, will, by its Elasticity, raise the Mercury almost as high as the usual Standard: And thereby shews, that the Spring of any small Part of common Air presses equally with the whole correspondent Column of the Atmosphere.
_Fig. 3._ Is a Contrivance to make an Explosion of Gunpowder in Vacuo: Where H D is a red hot Iron, standing on its Pedestal E, within a Receiver G C; and F is a Cock made above like a Dish, to contain the Gunpowder; which by the pulling up and thrusting down a strong Wire, with a Hole like the Eye of a Needle, is in a certain Quantity let fall every time upon the hot Iron; and on the Explosion produces Flame, and fictitious Air; but very little Sound, by reason of the Absence of the Air that should convey it.
_Fig. 4._ Is a Syringe, which will suck up the Water in the Glass C D, when it is in the open Air; but will not do the same under the Exhausted Receiver E F, unless for so small an Altitude as the remaining Air can sustain.
Figure 1. Is a large strong Glass Receiver, or Condenser, Arm'd with Brass Circles at both Ends, and fit to receive and bear the Pressure of Air considerably condens'd, when crouded into it by a Syringe fitted for that Purpose. It has also annexed to it a Gage C D, to determine the Quantity of the condens'd Air within. This Gage consists of a hollow Tube, Hermetically seal'd at D, with another smaller included, open towards D, and Hermetically seal'd at the other End. In this smaller Tube is left a little Quicksilver: This Quicksilver is by the Air at D in the larger Tube, which communicates with the condens'd Air in the Receiver it self, and so is of the same Density with it, crouded inwards towards C every time of the Admission of new Air; and by its whole Length from the End near D, compar'd with its Distance from the End near C, it determines the Proportion of the Density of the included Air to that of the common Air. _Note_, That the Syringe to be made use of with the Receiver, is the same with that represented in the next Figure, as joined to the condensing Engine it self; and acts by pulling up the Sucker above the Hole H, for the Admission of a full Cylinder of common Air, and then crouding it down into the Receiver; at the Bottom of this Syringe is a Valve, that hinders what is once crouded in from returning back again, as is necessary on all such Occasions.