 | 1893 - 652 pages
...at the lower temperature, which is in conradiction to the second law of thermo-dynainics, viz. : " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temwrature of the coldest of surrounding objects." We are thus forced to the conclusion that when the... | |
 | Robert Wallace Stewart - 1897 - 378 pages
...stated the law in the following form : — " It is impossible by means of inanimate material energy to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." It will be noticed that in the argument as to the perfect efficiency of a reversible engine no assumption... | |
 | Royal Dublin Society - 1898 - 894 pages
...Kelvin, if we leave the word "inanimate" out of his enunciation. His statement of the axiom is: — " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." It is legitimate here to omit the word " inanimate," as its insertion merely... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1899 - 940 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... | |
 | Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius - 1899 - 178 pages
...proposition to be proved. 12. The demonstration of the second proposition is founded on the following axiom : It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.* 13. To demonstrate the second proposition, let A and B be two thermo-dynamic engines, of which B satisfies... | |
 | Edwin Edser - 1899 - 498 pages
...the performance of work by some external agency) pass from a cold to a warmer body." — Clausius. " It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." — (Lord Kelvin.) InClausius's form of the second law, attention is directed... | |
 | Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius - 1899 - 174 pages
...to be proved. 12. The demonstration of the second proposition is founded on the following axiom : // is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it bdoir the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.* 13. To demonstrate the second proposition,... | |
 | Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius - 1899 - 182 pages
...proposition to be proved. 12. The demonstration of the second proposition is founded on the following axiom : It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling tt below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.* 13. To demonstrate the second... | |
 | Sadi Carnot, Rudolf Clausius - 1899 - 168 pages
...proposition to be proved. 12. The demonstration of the second proposition is founded on the following axiom : It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from aay portion of matter by cooling -it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.*... | |
 | 1899 - 730 pages
...cyclical change of temperature, to derive continuous mechanical effect from air or any other subatance, by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. AVe have stated this consequence in a rather ponderous way, because when we are criticising another... | |
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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. 
