 | 1861 - 460 pages
...and at two hours thirty minutes the water actually boiled. " It would be difficult (says the Count) to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bvstanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water (id est, 2J wine gallons) heated, and actually... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...this experiment on those who witnessed it, is quite delightful. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the by* Philosophical Magazine, 4th Scries, vol. xxiii. pp. 265, 347, 435. t An abstract of this paper... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...raised to 178°. At 2 hours 20 minutes it was at 200° ; and at 2 hours 30 minutes it ACTUALLY BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...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
...temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, in two hours and a half. " It would be difficult," he says, " to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...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
...warm. In two hours and a half " IT ACTUALLY BOILED ! " The philosopher shall speak for himself: — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...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
...Exclusion of the air did not in the smallest degree diminish the heat. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the surprise 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,... | |
 | George Miller Beard - 1875 - 1090 pages
...made the water boil in two hours and thirty minutes. Of this experiment Count Rumford says : — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenance of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of water heated, and actually made to boil,... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 396 pages
...large casting of the cannon, and all the machinery that was engaged in the process. He says : — ' It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...the by-standers, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. ' Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
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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. 
