 I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2-| feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded by the cylinder, were laid 10 grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there was not the least wind,...  The Supervision of Instruction: A General Volume - Page 293by Arvil Sylvester Barr, William Henry Burton - 1926 - 626 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 168 pages
...stronger proof of the want of justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew, however, will, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2^ feet, and diameter I foot. On the grass, surrounded by the cylinder, were...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew, however, will, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 530 pages
...stronger proof of the want of justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew, however, will, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities,... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...stronger proof of the want of justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew, however, will, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - 1828 - 872 pages
...this situation, as there was not the least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quan. tity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially screened by the cylinder from the aspci-t of the sky, was only about... | |
 | William Charles Wells - 1838 - 84 pages
...experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 24 feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded...while that acquired by 10 grains of fully exposed wodl was 16. This occurred on the night during which the wool under the bent pasteboard gained only... | |
 | 1884 - 472 pages
...experiment. I placed upright on a grass-plat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2e feet and diameter 1 foot. On the grass surrounded...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew will, however, in conbequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities... | |
 | Alexander Ramsay - 1884 - 538 pages
...was not the least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully ex]>osed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture obtained...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew will, however, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 334 pages
...experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2'/2 feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded...bent pasteboard gained only 2 grains of moisture. Dew, however, will, in consequence of other varieties of situation, form in very different quantities,... | |
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