 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 640 pages
...lecturer concluded by summing up in the following terms [quoted from the paper of 1852, see p. 290] : — (1) There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of energy. (3) Within a finite period of time past the earth must have been, and within a finite period... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 642 pages
...concluded by summing up in the following terms [quoted from the paper of 1852, see p. 290] : — (i) There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of energy. (a) Any restoration of energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible... | |
 | Silvanus Phillips Thompson - 1910 - 646 pages
...concluded by summing up in the following terms [quoted from the paper of 1852, see p. 290] :— (z) There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of energy. (2) Any restoration of energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - 1911 - 272 pages
...energy was laid down in 1852 by Professor William Thomson, afterwards Lord Kelvin, as follows : — '1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means... | |
 | Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 432 pages
...generations. It was first announced in 18u2, and we may quote the main conclusions as then formulated. 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...equivalent dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material proccwa, and is probably never effected by means of organized matter, either endowed with vegetable... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1919 - 348 pages
..."Mathematical and Physical Papers" (Cambridge, 1882, Vol. I, p. 514), the Law of Dissipation runs thus : — "1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - 1919 - 848 pages
...early as 1824 by Carnot. According to Kelvin's later definitive statement his law was as follows : 1. There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy7. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is... | |
 | American Historical Association - 1921 - 498 pages
...as early as 1824 by Carnot. According to Kelvin's later definitive statement his law was as follows: 1. There is at present in the material world a universal...mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably never effected by means... | |
 | Paul Carus - 1921 - 636 pages
...was stated by Sadi Carnot in 1824. It was developed by Thompson, Lord Kelvin, Clausius and Helmholtz. "There is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy." "Within a finite period of time past, the earth must have been, and within a finite period of time... | |
 | Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents - 1872 - 524 pages
...the Royal Society of Edinburgh, April 19,1852, Professor Thomson arrives at the conclusions, that " there is at present in the material world a universal...tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy;" and that " within a finite period of time past the earth must have been, and within a finite period... | |
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There is at present in the material world a universal tendency to the dissipation of mechanical energy. 2. Any restoration of mechanical energy, without more than an equivalent of dissipation, is impossible in inanimate material processes, and is probably... 
