Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" If we compare with this result the working of our best steam-engines, we see how small a part only of the heat applied under the boiler is really transformed into motion or the raising of weights; and this may serve as justification for the attempts at... "
The Correlation and Conservation of Forces: A Series of Expositions, by Prof ... - Page 329
by Edward Livingston Youmans - 1870 - 438 pages
Full view - About this book

Collected Essays and Articles on Physiology and Medicine [1855-1902], Volume 2

Austin Flint - 1903 - 540 pages
...being taken as = 1.421, that the warming of a given weight of water from o° to 1° C. corresponds to a fall of an equal weight from the height of about 365 metres.* If we compare with this result the working of our best steamengines, we see how small a part only of...
Full view - About this book

A History of Science, Volume 3

Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 378 pages
...volume being taken as = 1.421, that the warming of a given weight of water from o° to 1° centigrade corresponds to the fall of an equal weight from the height of about three hundred and sixty-five metres. If we compare with this result the working of our best steam-engines,...
Full view - About this book

Philosophical Magazine

1862 - 1550 pages
...constant volume being taken as = 1¿42l, that the warming of a given weight of water from 00 to 10 C. corresponds to the fall of an equal weight from the height of about 365 metres*. If we compare with this result the working of our best steamengines, we see how small a part only of...
Full view - About this book

The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...under constant volume, he estimated that 'the warming of an equal weight of water from 0°C to 1°C corresponds to the fall of an equal weight from the height of about 365 metres'. Details of the calculation, however, were not published until 1845, and then only privately.77 Mayer's...
Limited preview - About this book

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold

Tom Shachtman - 2000 - 275 pages
...others' experiments, and deduced a figure: "the warming of a given weight of water from o° to 1°C corresponds to the fall of an equal weight from the height of about 365 meters [1,200 feet]." This seemed to most readers like a comparison of apples and oranges. This article...
Limited preview - About this book

The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1863 - 1212 pages
...heat of air under constant pressure and its capacity under constant volume being taken ;is = 1 -\~,i\, that the warming of a given weight of water from 0°...sulphuric acid, then with nitric acid, the numbers which express the ratio which the absolute weights of these three substances bear to one another are called...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF