 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1878 - 476 pages
...temperature and deprived of all heat-energy. But Sir William Thomson has enunciated the principle : " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical eflect from any portion of matter, by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding... | |
 | 1879 - 550 pages
...machine, unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature." 2°. "It is impossible, by means of inanimate material...agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matters by cooling it below the .temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. (Thomson 1851).... | |
 | Henry Turner Eddy - 1879 - 196 pages
...heat from one body to another at a higher temperature." mechanical effect from any portion of matters by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. (Thomson, 1851). All that can be said respecting these proposed axioms is, that they are not self evident,... | |
 | Edward Spon - 1880 - 400 pages
...system of reasoning lead to the second law of thermodynamies, which is thus stated by Themson ; — " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." Themson was led by it to the diseovery that the absolute zero of temperature, or the point at which... | |
 | 1880 - 922 pages
...process further, devised a correct proof of Carnot's second proposition, based upon the axiom that " it is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding bodies'." With the present physical constitution of matter this is true, so far as we are yet able... | |
 | 1880 - 900 pages
...may, therefore, be regarded as physical axioms : 1. That a perpetual motion is impossible ; 2. That it is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of surrounding objects. A heat-engine when at work must carry heat from a body of high temperature (the... | |
 | Edward Spon - 1880 - 400 pages
...sy.-tem of reasoning lead to tho second law of thermodynamics, which is thus stated by Thomson ;— " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperaturo of the coldott of the surrounding objects." Thomson was led by it to the discovery that... | |
 | 1881 - 852 pages
...supposition of the materiality of heat, but on the following axiom, in some of its many possible forms: It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding .objects. It will be easily seen that the pair of engines (one reversible) before mentioned would, if worked... | |
 | Ohio Mechanics' Institute - 1882 - 348 pages
...the states of relative rest or motion of the bodies between which heat passes. The axiom of Thomson, "It is impossible, by means of inanimate material...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects," is obnoxious to the same criticism; and, as I have stated elsewhere,* these should... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1883 - 774 pages
...the states of relative rest or motion of the bodies between which heat passes. The axiom of Thomson, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate material...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects," is obnoxious to the same criticism, and, as I have stated elsewhere,* these should... | |
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It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. 
