 ACTUALLY BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire.  The Correlation and conservation of forces - Page xxiiby Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 438 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...expreffed in the countenances of VOL. ii. i. L the the by-danders, on feeing fo large a. quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. • Though there was, in fact., nothing that could juftly be confidered as furprifing in this event, yet I acknowledge fairly... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 pages
...aftoniihment exprefled in the countenances of the byftanders, on feeing fo large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing that could juftly be confidered as furprifing in this event, yet I acknowledge, fairly,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...on those who witnessed it, is quite delightful. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...to boil, without any fire. Though there was nothing * Philosophical Magazine, 4th Series, vol. xxiii. pp. 265, 347, 435. t An abstract of this paper is... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...delightful. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment erpressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing so...large a quantity of water heated, and actually made to bofl, without any fire. Though there was nothing that could be considered very surprising in this matter,... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick - 1870 - 560 pages
...beautiful from their enthusiastic simplicity. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...Though there was nothing that could be considered so very surprising in this matter, yet I acknowledge fairly that it afforded me a degree of childish... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...was at 200° ; and at 2 hours 30 minutes it ACTUALLY BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | 1871 - 400 pages
...sixty degrees Fahrenheit, in two hours and a half. " It would be difficult," he says, " to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pages
...difficult," he says, " to deOharloi Dickem, Jan.] SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION. [January 2l 1S71J 177 scribe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 pages
...ACTUALLY BOILED ! " The philosopher shall speak for himself: — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of .cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing that... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 450 pages
...and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing a large quantity of cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. ' Though there was, in fact, nothing that could justly be considered as surprising in this event, yet I acknowledge fairly... | |
| |
