 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.  Britain's Heritage of Science - Page 26by Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 334 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ernst Mach - 1905 - 484 pages
...W. Thomson in seiner Arbeit „on the dynamical theory of heat" (1852) findet es notwendig zu sagen: „It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from anj? portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surounding objects."... | |
 | Ernst Mach - 1905 - 500 pages
...in seiner Arbeit „on the dynamical theory of heat" (1852) findet es notwendig zu sagen: „It te impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from an? portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surounding objects."... | |
 | Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby - 1906 - 950 pages
...that this principle is identical in its conclusions with the assumption that it is impossible by any material agency to derive mechanical effect from any...by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. W Since fT- is a, function of the temperatures Wi of the two tanks alone,... | |
 | Alexander Findlay - 1906 - 436 pages
...impossible by means of any lifeless material contrivance to produce mechanical action from a given mass of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest surrounding objects. Still another method of expressing the same truth is — A thermodynamic perpetual motion is impossible... | |
 | Henry Adams - 1907 - 594 pages
...by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another at a higher temperature.—CLAUSIUS. It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.—SIR W. THOMSON. Under existing conditions it is impossible to convert... | |
 | 1908 - 1016 pages
...the secrets of nature." * He gave a demonstration of the second law, founding it upon the axiom that it is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. Further, by a most ingenious use of the integrating factor to solve the... | |
 | Institution of Electrical Engineers - 1908 - 958 pages
...the secrets of nature."* He gave a demonstration of the second law, founding it upon the axiom that it is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency, to derive mechanical effect from any portion of mailer by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. Further, by a... | |
 | Charles William Berry - 1908 - 354 pages
...thermodynamics that "it is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effort from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." Let the dotted line (Figs. 41 and 42) represent the lowest available temperature,... | |
 | Sydney Young - 1908 - 684 pages
...impossible by means of any lifeless material contrivance to produce mechanical action from a given mass of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest surrounding objects. Still another method of expressing the same truth is — A thcnnodynamic perpetual motion is impossible... | |
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