 | American Philosophical Society - 1883 - 734 pages
...the states of relative rest or motion of the bodies between which heat passes. The axiom of Thomson, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate material...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects," is obnoxious to the same criticism, and, as I have stated elsewhere,* these should... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1883 - 738 pages
...the states of relative rest or motion of the bodies between which heat passes. The axiom of Thomson, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate material...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects," is obnoxious to the same criticism, and, as I have stated elsewhere,* these should... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - 1883 - 774 pages
...the states of relative rest or motion of the bodies between which heat passes. The axiom of Thomson, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate material...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects," is obnoxious to the same criticism, and, as I have stated elsewhere,* these should... | |
 | Franz Schwackhöfer - 1884 - 308 pages
...unaided by any external agency, to convey heat from one body to another body at a higher temperature. (&) It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. While these statements give the nature of the law very clearly, they do not of course prove it ; and... | |
 | Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton - 1885 - 486 pages
...temperature. By Thomson the same Principle is stated somewhat differently in the following manner : — It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects ; and by Clerk Maxwell in another form, thus : — It is impossible, by the unaided action of natural... | |
 | Benjamin Williamson, Francis Alexander Tarleton - 1885 - 488 pages
...temperature. By Thomson the same Principle is stated somewhat differently in the following manner : — It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect front any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects... | |
 | 1886 - 542 pages
...William Thomson gives two propositions, the second of which depends for its demonstration upon the axiom, It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects. (Math, and Phys. Papers, pp. 178, 179) ; and Clausius states a First Main Principle,... | |
 | George Minchin Minchin - 1887 - 94 pages
...base our conclusion," said I, "on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which is as follows : — " ' // is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects? "We had almost enunciated a similar law with regard to Moneia," said he ; " but I observe in your language... | |
 | 1888 - 932 pages
...convey heat from one body to another ata higher temperature." W. Thomson, in 1851, employed the axiom, "it is impossible, by means of inanimate material...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." But he was careful to supplement this by further statements of an eitremely guarded character. And... | |
 | Charles Edward Groves - 1889 - 852 pages
...which loses motion to the more slowly vibrating body. Thomson expresses this result as follows : — " It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects." This is the second principle of thermodynamics. Considerations as to the efficiency of engines mainly... | |
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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. 
