 I have a fire in my chimney, there is a current of air constantly flowing from the door to the chimney ; but the beginning of the motion was at the chimney, where the air being rarefied by the fire rising, its place was supplied by the cooler air that...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 3651822Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1838 - 632 pages
...clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that will...to move, that which is next to it follows; and so, though the water proceeds forward to the gate, the motion which began there runs backwards, if one... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that will...to move, that which is next to it follows ; and so, though the water proceeds forward to the gate, the motion which began there runs backwards, if one... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 668 pages
...water in a long sluice or mill-race, being stopped by a gate, is at rest like the air in a calm ; bnt as soon as you open the gate at one end to let it out, the water which is next the gnte begins first to move, that which is next to it follows ; and so, though the... | |
 | James Parton - 1865 - 672 pages
...the water in a long sluice or mill-race, being stopped by a gate, is at rest like the air in a caim ; but as soon as you open the gate at one end to let it out, the water which is next the gate begins first to move, that which is next to it follows ; and so, though the... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - 1882 - 652 pages
...next to it, and the place of that by the next, and so on to the door. So the water in a long <luice or mill-race, being stopped by a gate, is at rest...to move, that which is next to it follows ; and so, though the water proceeds forward to the gate, the motion which began there runs backwards, if one... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pages
...clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place ; that will...to move, that which is next to it follows ; and so, though the water proceeds forward to the gate, the motion which began there runs backwards, if one... | |
 | 1899 - 1010 pages
...clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must ris*. and the denser air next to it will press into its place; that will...to move, that which is next to it follows; and so, though the water proceeds forward to the gate, the motion which began there runs backwards, if one... | |
 | MARYLAND-WEATHER SERVICE - 1899 - 756 pages
...clouds, and its air chilled and condensed. The rarefied air being lighter must rise, and the denser air next to it will press into its place; that will...open the gate at one end to let it out the water next to the gate begins first to move, that which is next to it follows: and so though the water proceeds... | |
 | Maryland. Weather Service - 1899 - 734 pages
...door to the chimney; but the beginning of the motion was at the chimney where the air being rare-ed by the fire rising its place was supplied by the cooler...open the gate at one end to let it out the water next to the gate begins -rst to move, that which is next to it follows; and so though the water proceeds... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1899 - 1110 pages
...was supplied by the cooler air that was neit to it, and the place of that by the next, and so OB . to the door. So the water in a long sluice or millrace,...gate at one end to let it out, the water next the gat* begins first to move, that which is next to it follows; and so, though the water proceeds forward... | |
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