Ogden Daily Standard | 1903-05-14 | Page 2 | Strength of Eggshells

of most people are abaro of the power of eggshells egg shells to resist external pressure on the ends but not many would credit the results 0 testa recently made which appear to be genuine eight ordinary hena eggs that were submitted to pressure varied between pounds and pounds per square inch with the stresses applied internally to twelve eggs gave way at pressures varying between thirty two pounds and sixty five pounds per square inch the pressure required to crush the eggs varied between forty pounds and seventy alve pounds the average thickness ot the shells was thirteen one thousandths inch