 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 pages
...machine was put in motion. The refult of this beautiful Experiment was very ftriking, and the pleafure it afforded me amply repaid me for all the trouble...contriving and arranging the complicated machinery ufetl in making it. The cylinder, revolving at the rate of about 34 times in a minute, had been in... | |
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1830 - 728 pages
...change of its capa.ci.ty for heat ? . . . Experiment 2. — The result of this beautiful experiment was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded me...complicated machinery used in making it. The cylinder, revolving at the rate of about 32 times in a minute, had been in motion but a short time, when I perceived,... | |
 | Robert Hunt - 1849 - 538 pages
...at the temperature of 60) and the machine was put in motion. Tke result of this beautiful experiment was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded me...complicated machinery used in making it. The cylinder, revolving at the rate of about thinytwo times in a minute, had been in motion but a short time, whta... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...pressed against the bottom of the cylinder. The box was filled with water until the entire cylinder was covered, and then the apparatus was set in action....' The result of this beautiful experiment,' writes Eumford, ' was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded me amply repaid me for all the trouble I... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...pressed against the bottom. The box was filled, with water until the entire cylinder was covered, and the apparatus was set in action. The temperature of the water on commencing was 60°, He remarks, u The result of this -beautiful experiment was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1869 - 566 pages
...pressed against the bottom of the cylinder. The box was filled with water until the entire cylinder was covered, and then the apparatus was set in action....' The result of this beautiful experiment,' writes Bumford, ' was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded me amply repaid me for all the trouble I... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...the temperature of 60'), and the machine was put in motion. The result of this beautiful experiment was very striking, and the pleasure it afforded me...complicated machinery used in making it. The cylinder, revolving at the rate of about 32 times in a minute, had been in motion but a short time, when I perceived,... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1873 - 582 pages
...pressed against the bottom of the cylinder. The box was filled with water until- the entire cylinder was covered, and then the apparatus was set in action. The temperature of the water on commencing was 6O degrees. "The result of this beautiful experiment," writes Rumford, " was very striking, and the... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pages
...The box 'was filled with water until the entire cylinder was covered, and then the apparatus was sot in action. The temperature of the water on commencing...and the pleasure it afforded me amply repaid me for &11 the trouble I had had in contriving and arranging the complicated machinery used in making it.... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 666 pages
...pressed against the bottom of the cylinder. The box was filled with water until the entire cylinder was covered, and then the apparatus was set in action....The temperature of the water on commencing was 60° Fahr. ' The result of this beautiful experiment,' writes Rumford, ' was very striking, and the pleasure... | |
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The cylinder, revolving at the rate of about 32 times in a minute, had been in motion but a short time, when I perceived, by putting my hand into the water and touching the outside of the cylinder, that Heat was generated ; and it was not long before... 
