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" BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. "
Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion - Page 27
by John Tyndall - 1869 - 541 pages
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The Mechanics' Magazine and Journal of Engineering, Agricultural ..., Volume 75

1861 - 460 pages
...and at two hours thirty minutes the water actually boiled. " It would be difficult (says the Count) to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bvstanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water (id est, 2J wine gallons) heated, and actually...
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Heat Considered as a Mode of Motion: Being a Course of Twelve Lectures ...

John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 pages
...it was 200°, and at two hours and thirty minutes from the commencement tf,e water actually boiled! Rumford's description of the effect of this experiment...says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment erpressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of water heated, and...
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Heat: A Mode of Motion

John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 pages
...200°, and at two hours and thirty minutes from the commencement the water actually boiled ! Itumford's description of the effect of this experiment on those...astonishment expressed in the countenances of the by* Philosophical Magazine, 4th Scries, vol. xxiii. pp. 265, 347, 435. t An abstract of this paper...
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The Complete Works of Count Rumford, Volume 1

Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 pages
...hours 20 minutes it was at 200° ; and at 2 hours 30 minutes it ACTUALLY BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing...
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The Eclectic: A Monthly Magazine of Useful Knowledge, Volume 3

1871 - 400 pages
...boiling water, originally at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, in two hours and a half. " It would be difficult," he says, " to describe the...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of...
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All the Year Round, Volume 5; Volume 25

1871 - 632 pages
...difficult," he says, " to deOharloi Dickem, Jan.] SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION. [January 2l 1S71J 177 scribe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of...
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The Royal Institution: Its Founder and Its First Professors

Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 pages
...the heat come from the air ? Exclusion of the air did not in the smallest degree diminish the heat. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the...expressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing a large quantity of cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. ' Though there was,...
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Memoir of Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford: With Notices of His Daughter

George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 pages
...half " IT ACTUALLY BOILED ! " The philosopher shall speak for himself: — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of .cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing that...
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Our home physician

George Miller Beard - 1875 - 1090 pages
...— " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenance of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." "Just fifty years subsequently to the experiment of Rumford. (according to Prof. EL Youmans), Dr. JP...
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A Short History of Natural Science and of the Progress of Discovery: From ...

Arabella Burton Buckley - 1876 - 532 pages
...actually boiled. ' It would be difficult,' writes Rumford, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated and actually made to boil without any fire,' and he adds that he himself was as delighted as a child at the success of the experiment ; and we can...
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