 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - 1889 - 486 pages
...this century, and find Rumford's conclusion regarding the heat generated in boring a brass gun : " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being. excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION ; " 1 and... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not impossi form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments except it be motion." Davy's experiment... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1890 - 666 pages
...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...communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION.' With regard to the illustration which compared heat to water contained in a sponge, Kumford replied... | |
 | William Robinson (M.E.) - 1890 - 658 pages
...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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." *... | |
 | Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - 1890 - 938 pages
...of bodies can continue to furnish without limitation «»nnot possibly be a material substance ; nhd it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." About... | |
 | Robert Henry Thurston - 1890 - 704 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... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1892 - 522 pages
...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...communicated in those experiments, except it be Motion.' ' Mode of Motion, Lecture II. 1884. LOUIS PASTEUR, HIS LIFE AND LABOURS. (A Review.) ' IN the early... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1892 - 392 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...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." 28.... | |
 | Richard Glazebrook - 1893 - 208 pages
...concluding, therefore, that heat cannot be a material substance, and that thus it appeared ' to him to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible,...anything capable of being excited and communicated by these experiments except it be motion.' Instead of motion, we should now say energy. But Rumford's... | |
 | Thomas Preston - 1894 - 750 pages
...these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible." cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if...anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it be MOTION." 34. Davy's... | |
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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... 
