| Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1898 - 490 pages
...engines. It is expressed in the following sentence : — ' The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion.1 HEAT IS PRODUCED BY THE AGITATION OF THE MOLECULES OF BODIES. 33. After the experiments of... | |
| John Gray McKendrick - 1899 - 344 pages
...ice by rubbing two pieces of ice together. In 1812 Davy wrote: 'The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Professor Tait remarks in this connection : ' If Davy had with this statement taken into account the... | |
| 1899 - 338 pages
...ice by rubbing two pieces of ice together. In 1812 Davy wrote: 'The immediate cause of the phenomena of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Professor Tait remarks in this connection : ' If Davy had with this statement taken into account the... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 352 pages
...was not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that " the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." ' Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given in 1807... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 340 pages
...was not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that "the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion." l Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given in 1807... | |
| Florian Cajori - 1899 - 342 pages
...was 'not till 1812 that he felt sure in asserting that "the immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat is motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion."1 Arguing from Rumford's experiments, a conclusive refutation of the caloric theory was given... | |
| 1898 - 734 pages
...the bodies, tending to separate them." In 1812 Davy said: •The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat, then, is motion, and the laws of its communication...same as the laws of the communication of motion." This is the "dynamical" or present theory of heat. Other scientists have experimented and agreed that... | |
| Ernest Howard Griffiths - 1901 - 152 pages
...not, however, till 1812 that he enunciated this proposition : " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication...precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion1 " ; and, on reflection, it seems extraordinary that the publication of the works of Rumford... | |
| Ernest Howard Griffiths - 1901 - 158 pages
...not, however, till 1812 that he enunciated this proposition : " The immediate cause of the phenomenon of heat then is motion, and the laws of its communication...precisely the same as the laws of the communication of motion1"; and, on reflection, it seems extraordinary that the publication of the works of Rum ford... | |
| 1901 - 530 pages
...completely. He concluded that ' the immediate HEAT-ENGINE HEAVEN, cmi -• • of the phenomenon of heat la motion, and the laws of its communication are precisely...same as the laws of the communication of motion.' Between 1840 and 1843 Joule conclusively established the truth of this theory — the dynamical theory... | |
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