Cyclopadic Science SimplifiedF. Warne and Company, 1869 - 685 pages |
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... STEAM ELECTRICITY VOLTAIC , GALVANIC , OR DYNAMICAL ELECTRICITY MAGNETISM ELECTRO - MAGNETISM , MAGNETO - ELEC- TRICITY , THERMO - ELECTRICITY DIA - MAGNETISM WHEATSTONE'S TELEGRAPHS PNEUMATICS THE AIR - PUMP THE DIVING - Bell ACOUSTICS ...
... STEAM ELECTRICITY VOLTAIC , GALVANIC , OR DYNAMICAL ELECTRICITY MAGNETISM ELECTRO - MAGNETISM , MAGNETO - ELEC- TRICITY , THERMO - ELECTRICITY DIA - MAGNETISM WHEATSTONE'S TELEGRAPHS PNEUMATICS THE AIR - PUMP THE DIVING - Bell ACOUSTICS ...
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... STEAM 172 LIQUIDS , AND GASES 130 THE STEAM ENGINE 179 THE EXPANSION OF LIQUIDS 132 DESCRIPTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE 182 THE THERMOMETER .......... 135 EVAPORATION THE PYROMETER 193 139 HYGROMETRY 194 THE EXPANSION OF GASES 142 RADIATION ...
... STEAM 172 LIQUIDS , AND GASES 130 THE STEAM ENGINE 179 THE EXPANSION OF LIQUIDS 132 DESCRIPTION OF THE STEAM ENGINE 182 THE THERMOMETER .......... 135 EVAPORATION THE PYROMETER 193 139 HYGROMETRY 194 THE EXPANSION OF GASES 142 RADIATION ...
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... steam , and the latter is the greatest modern representative of power . Power , as shown by the muscular force of the arm conveyed through a hammer , generates heat when metals are beaten on the anvil . This connection between heat and ...
... steam , and the latter is the greatest modern representative of power . Power , as shown by the muscular force of the arm conveyed through a hammer , generates heat when metals are beaten on the anvil . This connection between heat and ...
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... steam gun in the form of bullets against a wrought - iron target , a flash of light is apparent in a darkened room . The heavy shot used for battering iron plates always become very hot after they have struck the plate . No. 3. Chemical ...
... steam gun in the form of bullets against a wrought - iron target , a flash of light is apparent in a darkened room . The heavy shot used for battering iron plates always become very hot after they have struck the plate . No. 3. Chemical ...
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... steam freely and without pressure , for the other . Ice always melts at the same temperature , and pure water invariably boils at the same temperature , when the barometer stands at 29 8 in . It is only necessary to immerse the ...
... steam freely and without pressure , for the other . Ice always melts at the same temperature , and pure water invariably boils at the same temperature , when the barometer stands at 29 8 in . It is only necessary to immerse the ...
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Page 391 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 159 - I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce, from aqueous...
Page 139 - ... the particles move round their own axes, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space. Temperature may be conceived to depend upon the velocities of the vibrations; increase of capacity on the motion being performed in greater space; and the diminution of temperature, during the conversion of solids into fluids or gases, may be explained on the idea of the loss of vibratory motion, in consequence of the revolution of particles round their axes, at the moment when the...
Page 139 - It seems possible to account for all the phenomena of heat, if it be supposed that in solids the particles are in a constant state of vibratory motion, the particles of the hottest bodies moving with the greatest velocity...
Page 314 - I endeavoured upon this law to construct an instrument which should measure out the electricity passing through it, and which, being interposed in the course of the current used in any particular experiment, should serve at pleasure, either as a comparative standard of effect, or as a positive measurer of this subtile agent.
Page 311 - On the absolute Quantity of Electricity associated with the Particles or Atoms of matter...
Page 312 - THE theory which I believe to be a true expression of the facts of electro-chemical decomposition, and which I have therefore detailed in a former series of these Researches, is so much at variance with those previously advanced, that I find the greatest difficulty in stating results, as I think, correctly, whilst limited to the use of terms which are current with a certain accepted meaning. Of this kind is the term pole, with its prefixes of positive and negative, and the attached ideas of attraction...
Page 313 - I propose to distinguish these bodies by calling those anions\ which go to the anode of the decomposing body ; and those passing to the cathode, cations^ ' and when I have occasion to speak of these together, I shall call them ions.
Page 318 - In further proof of this high electric condition of the particles of matter, and the identity as to quantity of that belonging to them with that necessary for their separation...
Page 139 - ... and elastic fluids, besides the vibratory motion, which must be conceived greatest in the last, the particles have a motion round their own axes, with different velocities, the particles of elastic fluids moving with the greatest quickness : and that in ethereal substances the particles move round their own axes, and separate from each other, penetrating in right lines through space.