 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...  A Popular History of Science - Page 308by Robert Routledge - 1881 - 673 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1874 - 810 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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion." In view of these results Eumford asks : "Is there any such... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1874 - 822 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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except it be motion." In view of these results Rumford asks: " Is there any such... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1874 - 498 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 quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION.' principle... | |
 | William Garnett - 1876 - 180 pages
...a paper read by him in 1798 before the Royal Society, after describing this experiment, he adds: " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." Shortly after Rumford's experiments Sir Humphry Davy found that friction between two blocks of ice... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 396 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...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion. I am very... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 416 pages
...form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion. I am very far from pretending to know how or by what means or mechanical contrivance that particular... | |
 | Richard Sears McCulloh - 1876 - 364 pages
...possibly be a material substance," and that it is "extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form a distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Rumford also sought... | |
 | William Garnett - 1878 - 236 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...communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." (Rumford.) 297. About the same time as Rumford's experiments were published (17.98), Sir Humphry Davy... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 522 pages
...compression of the materials employed or acted upon, says : " It appears to me extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." ' He then goes on... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1878 - 518 pages
...to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." ' He then goes on to urge a zealous and persistent investigation of the laws which govern this motion.... | |
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