Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" 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, would have received as much rain... "
Encyclopædia metropolitana; or, Universal dictionary of knowledge, ed. by E ... - Page 132
by Encyclopaedia - 1845
Full view - About this book

An Essay on Dew: And Several Appearances Connected with it

William Charles Wells - 1815 - 174 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtained by the wool surrounded...
Full view - About this book

Two Essays: One, Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other, On Dew; A ...

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 554 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtaine by the wool surrounded...
Full view - About this book

Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other on Dew

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...justness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, upright, on the grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture, obtained by the wool surrounded...
Full view - About this book

Two Essays: One Upon Single Vision with Two Eyes; the Other on Dew

William Charles Wells - 1818 - 536 pages
...ness in this supposition is afforded by the following experiment. I placed, up-right, ou UK- grassplat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which...the cylinder, were laid 10 grains of wool, which, iu this situation, as there was not the U-.i.Ni wind, would have received as much rain, UH a like quantity...
Full view - About this book

A Dictionary of Chemistry: In which the Principles of the Science are ...

Andrew Ure - 1827 - 904 pages
...I footdiameter, anal 2¿ feet high. On the grsas round the outer edge of the cyunder, were laid SO grains of wool, which in this situation, as there was not the least wind, wouldhave received aamuchrain as a likequan. tity ofwoolfully exposed to the sky. But the quantity...
Full view - About this book

The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 7

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 826 pages
...diameter, and two feet and a-haif high. (An the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially...
Full view - About this book

The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 1, Volume 7

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 394 pages
...diameter, and two feet and a-half high. On the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially...
Full view - About this book

The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art ..., Volume 7

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...diameter, nnd two feet and a-half high. Un the grass round the outer edge of the cylinder, were laid ten grains of wool, which, in this situation, as there...wind, would have received as much rain, as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture acquired by the wool partially...
Full view - About this book

A Bibliography, Guide, and Index to Climate

Alexander Ramsay - 1884 - 538 pages
...experiment. I placed upright on a grass-plat a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2J feet and diameter 1 foot. On the grass surrounded...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture obtained by the wool surrounded...
Full view - About this book

The Supervision of Instruction: A General Volume

Arvil Sylvester Barr, William Henry Burton - 1926 - 654 pages
...cylinder.—I placed, upright, on the grass-plat, a hollow cylinder of baked clay, the height of which was 2V2 feet, and diameter 1 foot. On the grass, surrounded...least wind, would have received as much rain as a like quantity of wool fully exposed to the sky. But the quantity of moisture obtained by the wool surrounded...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF