 a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2£ feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded by the cylinder, were laid 10 grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there was not the least wind, would have received as much rain...  Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 132by Encyclopaedia - 1845Full view - About this book
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtained by the wool surrounded... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 552 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtaine by the wool surrounded... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtained by the wool surrounded... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...ness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, up-right, ou UK- grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...the cylinder, were laid 10 grains of wool, which, iu this situation, as there was not the U-.i.Ni wind, would have received as much rain, UH a like quantity... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1827 - 902 pages
...I footdiameter, anal 2¿ feet high. On the grsas round the outer edge of the cyunder, were laid SO grains of wool, which in this situation, as there was not the least wind, wouldhave received aamuchrain as a likequan. tity ofwoolfully exposed to the sky. But the quantity... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 828 pages
...diameter, and two feet and a-haif high. (An the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 394 pages
...diameter, and two feet and a-half high. On the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 848 pages
...diameter, nnd two feet and a-half high. Un the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially... | |
 | Alexander Ramsay - 1884 - 550 pages
...experiment. I placed upright on a grass-plat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2J feet and diameter 1 foot. On the grass surrounded...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture obtained by the wool surrounded... | |
 | Arvil Sylvester Barr, William Henry Burton - 1926 - 654 pages
...cylinder.—I placed, upright, on the grass-plat, a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2V2 feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture obtained by the wool surrounded... | |
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