Why the name,Torrent?
The machines run on the clean water that you would expect in a torrent, they produce torrents of hydrogen and oxygen, and the word evokes the clean environment that we should be living in. There is also a link to the notion of gas under pressure, because a ‘torr’ is an SI unit used in the measurement of pressure, named after Evangelista Torricelli (1608-47), an Italian mathemetician and physicist. He invented the mercury barometer, with which he showed that the atmosphere exerts sufficent pressure to support a column of mercury in an inverted, enclosed tube. He was also the first person to produce a sustained vacuum. 1 torr is 1mm of mercury, 133.32 pascals, 133.32 N/m², 0.0013332 bar, 0.01934psi, or 0.03937 inches of mercury. 760 torr is standard atmospheric pressure–1.01325 bar, 14.7psi, or 29.92 inches of mercury.
