 | Henry Smith Williams - 1904 - 400 pages
...to one hundred and seventy-eight degrees; and at two hours and thirty minutes it actually boiled! " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | George Winston Reid - 1905 - 202 pages
...be difficult,' wrote Rumford, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment of the bystanders to see so large a quantity of water heated and actually made to boil without any fire.' . . . By this experiment he had proved that motion can be turned into heat." 1 The experiment at least... | |
 | David Starr Jordan - 1910 - 520 pages
...containing 18j pounds of water around the cylinder, and in two hours and a half the water boiled. " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing that... | |
 | Elmer Ellsworth Burns - 1910 - 280 pages
...In two hours and thirty minutes the water actually boiled. Astonishment was expressed in the faces of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated and actually made to boil without any fire. "Heat," Count Rumford said, "may thus be produced merely by the strength of a horse, and, in case of... | |
 | Silas Ellsworth Coleman - 1911 - 672 pages
...water actually boiled. ' It is difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment,' says Rumford, 'expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water (18.75 Ib.) heated, and actually made to boil without any fire.' The source of heat generated... | |
 | Edwin James Houston, Alfred Newlin Seal - 1912 - 430 pages
...water actually boiled." "It is difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment," says Rumford, " expressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water (18j pounds) heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Reasoning that this production... | |
 | Ivor Blashka Hart - 1924 - 330 pages
...hours and twenty minutes, the water actually began to boil! 'It would be difficult', wrote Rumford, 'to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1925 - 118 pages
...of two horses for two hours and twenty minutes. In his account of this novel experiment, he says : " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. " Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | 1892 - 280 pages
...two hours and twenty minutes it was at 200°, and at two hours and thirty minutes it actually boiled! "It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. "Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | 1928 - 430 pages
...raised to 178°. At 2 hours 20 minutes it was at 200° ;and at 2 hours 30 minutes it actually boiled! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and...the by-standers, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, ir/ fact, nothing... | |
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ACTUALLY BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. 
