 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...have been capable of melting 6J Ibs. of ice, or of causing near 5 Ibs. of ice-cold water to boil,) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...dust ? and this merely in consequence of a change of its capa.ci.ty for heat ? . . . Experiment 2. — The result of this beautiful experiment was very... | |
 | 1861 - 460 pages
...have been capable of melting 6J pounds of ice, or of cansing near 5 pounds of ieed-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...dust — and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for heat? As the weight of this dust (837 grains troy) amounted to no more than l-948th... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...the temperature of above 113 pounds of gun metal at least 70 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...consequence of a change in its capacity for heat'? RUMFORD'S EXPERIMENTS. r,5 ' But without insisting on the improbability of this supposition, we have... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...quantity which actually raised the temperature of upward of 118 pounds of gun metal 'at least. 70°, could have been furnished' by so inconsiderable a...dust, and this merely in consequence of a change in the capacity for heat? " To measure more precisely the heat produced, lie next surrounded 'Ms' cylinder... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 pages
...the temperature of upward of 118 pounds of gun metal at least 70°, could have been furnished hy go inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change in the capacity for heat? " To measure more precisely the heat produced, he next surrounded his cylinder... | |
 | William James Rolfe - 1868 - 328 pages
...quantity which actually raised the temperature of 113 pounds of gunmetal at least 70° Fahrenheit — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...consequence of a change in its capacity for heat ? " But he found by careful experiment that the capacity of the metal for heat was changed very slightly, if... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...would have been capable of melting 6£ lb. of ice, or of causing near 5 lb. of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...dust ? and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for Heat ? As the weight of this dust (837 grains, Troy) amounted to no more than .g^th... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 pages
...of melting six and a half pounds of ice, or of causing near five pounds of ice-cold water to boil) could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change of its capacity for Heat ? " The weight of the metallic dust was no more than -$\^ part of that of... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 666 pages
...temperature of above 1 1 3 pounds of gun-metal at least 70 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...purpose of ascertaining that fact, the capacity for beat of the metal of which great guns are cast is not sen' sihly changed by being reduced to the form... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 644 pages
...the temperature of above 113 pounds of gun-metal at least 70 degrees of Fahrenheit's thermometer — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity...in its capacity for heat ? But, without insisting ou the improbability of this supposition, we have only to recollect that from the results of actual... | |
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Fahrenheit's ther69 mometer — could have been furnished by so inconsiderable a quantity of metallic dust, and this merely in consequence of a change in its capacity for heat... 
