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IF the following working model, which was the outcome of a good many trials, is in any way original it may prove of interest, as it works automatically and with excellent effect as a geyser of regular period, suitable for a lecture table. The figure needs but little description. A small aspirator with a bent glass tube exit acts as an intermittent syphon. The water is discharged into a half—inch iron pipe, the long horizontal limb of which measures some 13 centimetres. The glass syphon tube slips through a rubber ring at the top of the pipe (gauge fitting), or a cork would doubtless answer the purpose. The lower closed end of the tube is heated by the equivalent of about four ordinary Bunsen burners, and should be placed as shown, as if placed under the exit, steam is generated too fast and the water may be blown back into the aspirator. Water drips into the aspirator at such a rate that the syphon discharges about 300 c.c. of water once in every ten minutes. A jet of steam some six feet high and water some two feet high results, with many appropriate gurglings. The diameter of the exit is about 6 millimetres. Of course the apparatus is concealed; a large circular tin canister to which the iron pipe is screwed forms a good foundation and serves to keep the water off the burners. Furnace clinker, which is not wholly unsuitable, forms a readily obtainable material for completing the external features of the geyser.
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MUNBY, A. A Model Geyser. Nature 65, 247 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065247b0
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