 ... all the energy which, according to the first law of Thermo-dynamics, is resident in the coal. On a sounder view of the matter, the efficiency of the steam-engine is found to be so high, that there is no great margin remaining for improvement. The...  Report of the Annual Meeting - Page 11by British Association for the Advancement of Science - 1885Full view - About this book
 | 1884 - 652 pages
...manifest, that, as the temperature of the boiler cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilize all the energy which, according to the first law of...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1884 - 668 pages
...manifest, that, as the temperature of the boiler cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilize all the energy which, according to the first law of...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | 1884 - 660 pages
...manifest, that, as the temperature of the boiler cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilize all the energy which, according to the first law of...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | 1884 - 954 pages
...opens out much wider possibilities, and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return...we may say with Sir "W. Thomson that, though energy can not be destroyed, it ever tends to be dissipated, or to pass from more available to less available... | |
 | 1885 - 284 pages
...manifest that, as the temperature of the boiler cannot be raised indefinitely, it is impossible to utilize all the energy which, according to the first law of...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | 1885 - 324 pages
...high that there is no great margin remaining for improvement. The higher initial temperature Invisible in the gas-engine opens out much wider possibilities,...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. or can take place in Nature does so at the... | |
 | John William Strutt Baron Rayleigh - 1900 - 624 pages
...regard also to the second law. According to that law the fraction of the total energy which can be converted into work depends upon the relative temperatures...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | Desert Institute on the Mediterranean Littoral - 1957 - 628 pages
...regard also to the second law. According to that law the fraction of the total energy which can be converted into work depends upon the relative temperatures...and many good judges look forward to a time when the steam-engine will have to give way to its younger rival. To return to the theoretical question, we... | |
 | 1884 - 338 pages
...no great margin remaining for improvement. The higher initial temperature possible in the gas engine opens out much wider possibilities, and many good...engine will have to give way to its younger rival. THE NATIONAL ELECTRICAL CONFERENCE. IN accordance with the announcement, the inaugural meeting of the... | |
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