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" When equal quantities of mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated. "
Handbook to the Special Loan Collection of Scientific Apparatus 1876 - Page 127
by South Kensington Museum - 1876 - 339 pages
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The North British review

1864 - 572 pages
...mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence, or are generated. • II. If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies...
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Sketch of Thermodynamics

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - 148 pages
...mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence, or are generated. II. If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies in...
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Lectures on Some Recent Advances in Physical Science

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 416 pages
...produced by any means whatever, from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, then equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated : and for every imit of heat measured by the raising of a pound of water I deg. Fah. in temperature, you...
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Cyclopædic science simplified

John Henry Pepper - 1877 - 764 pages
...quantities of mechanical effect are produced by any means from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put...of work are capable of raising the temperature of one pound of water from 50° F. to 51° F. Commenting on this, the professor remarks that " Perhaps...
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Thermodynamics

Richard Wormell - 1877 - 192 pages
...effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or spent in producing purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated. In proof of the law we have : (1.) The experiments of Joule and others on the production of heat by...
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Heat

Peter Guthrie Tait - 1884 - 392 pages
...quantities of mechanical effect are produced by arty means from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put...of work are capable of raising the temperature of 1 Ib. of water from 5o° F. to 51° F. 38. Though by experiments such as those we have mentioned (but...
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Scottish Metaphysics Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of ...

E. Edmond - 1887 - 270 pages
...mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated ; " and W. Thomson showed that " only a fraction of the heat employed in any engine is converted into useful...
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Scottish Metaphysics: Reconstructed in Accordance with the Principles of ...

E. Edmond - 1887 - 268 pages
...mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated ; " and W. Thomson showed that " only a fraction of the heat employed in any engine is converted into useful...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 23

1888 - 932 pages
...mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or lost in purely thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence, or are generated. [To this we may add, after Joule, that in the latitude of Manchester 772 foot-pounds of work are capable...
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Physics: Advanced Course

George Frederick Barker - 1892 - 932 pages
...quantities of mechanical effect are produced by any means whatever from purely thermal sources, or are lost in purelv thermal effects, equal quantities of heat are put out of existence or are generated." (Thomson.) The second law relates to the transformation of heat into work. It may be stated as follows...
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