 | 1928 - 430 pages
...of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiment?, except it be motion. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford was born at Woburn. Massachusetts... | |
 | 1862 - 1550 pages
...Rumford, inquiring into the source of heat developed in the boring of cannon, observed that it was “ extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form...communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and cornmunicated in these experiments, except it be motion.” In 1812, Davy wrote, “ The immediate... | |
 | Morris H. Shamos - 1987 - 384 pages
..."extremely difficult, if not quite impossihle, to form any distinct idea of anything, capahle of heing excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated In thesi- experiments, except it he motion."t One of the most important parts of Count Rumford's paper,... | |
 | Richard L. Hills - 1993 - 360 pages
...limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion.17 In the following year,... | |
 | Edgar Heilbronner, Foil A. Miller - 2004 - 286 pages
...idea that heat was some sort of matter. He wrote: '. . . it appears to me extremely difficult if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion'26. ln 1798 Thompson, by now Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford,... | |
 | Len Fisher - 2003 - 282 pages
...body . . . can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner that Heat was excited and communicated in these Experiments, except it be MOTION. Rumford's conception... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION.2 The summit of Rumford's achievement was the first determination... | |
 | 152 pages
...system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance2. It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." He adds,... | |
 | Oswald H. Blackwood, William C. Kelly, Raymond M. Bell - 1973 - 428 pages
...apparently, inexhaustible. What then was the source of the heat ? This is Rumford's own answer : ' ... it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion'. In other words, the ultimate source of the heat was the motion... | |
 | 1864 - 804 pages
...system of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." In style, Professor Tyndall's work is remarkably clear, spirited,... | |
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It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to... 
