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Thermo-si′phon.

A siphon attachment to hot-water heating-apparatus, invented by two engineers, — Kewley of London, and Fowler of Devonshire, England. They found that the circulation of the water was greatly increased by passing it through the two legs of a siphon, especially when the tubes were irregular in point of horizontal direction, and both above and below the level of the boiler. See London's “Encyclopaedia of gardening,” London, 1834, page 597.

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