do i remeber right that the 76 cm mercury colum weighs 1 kg (1 sqr cm base of course) so that is 1 bar or atm. basically the air guage on the printing press at work goes from 10 to 76 cm of mercury...
I recall seeing the following on a sampler in the optics lab at Liverpool Uni in the 60s:"Here truths sublime and sacred science charm......."the last line was:"....and piercing opticks more than...