Excerpt from An Apparatus and Method for Determining the Compressibility of a Gas and the Correction for "Supercompressibility"The general outline of the experimental method, which is a classical one, was suggested to the writer as suitable to the purpose in hand by Dr. Edgar Buckingham, who also made some useful suggestions regard ing methods of computation. Acknowledgement is likewise due to J. R. Fay for assistance in the preparation of the apparatus.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.