 | George Adolphus Wigney - 1838 - 386 pages
...those interstices or areas, and to separate the ponderable atoms from each other, as is sufficient to raise the temperature of a pound of water from 32 to 172 degrees of heat, so the 140 degrees which is thus imparted becomes the constituent heat of such... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1868 - 896 pages
...been introduced to express in a convenient way the lifting of one pound to the height of a foot. Thus, the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree Fahrenheit being taken as a standard, 772 foot-pounds constitute what is callud the mechanical... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1858 - 448 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
 | Chemistry - 1865 - 338 pages
...express in a convenient or systematic way the lifting of 771 pounds to the height of one foot. Thus the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken as a standard, 772 foot pounds statute, u what is called the mechanical equivalent... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1859 - 448 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 538 pages
...introduced to express, in a convenient way, the lifting of one pound to the height of a foot. Thus the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken, as a standard, 772 foot-pounds constitute what is called the mechanical equivalent... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1863 - 500 pages
...introduced to express, in a convenient way, the lifting of one pound to the height of a foot. Thus the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken as a standard, 772 foot-pounds-constitute what is called the mechanical equivalent... | |
 | 1864 - 670 pages
...foot-pound," has been introduced to express the lifting of one pound to the height of one foot. And the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water one degree being taken as the standard of measurement, 772 foot-pounds constitute what 18 termed the... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - Force and energy - 1865 - 512 pages
...by the consumption of heat, for each foot-pound thus gained a definite quantity of heat disappears. The quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water a degree of the centigrade thermometer, corresponds to a mechanical force by which a pound weight would... | |
 | John Tyndall - Heat - 1866 - 492 pages
...introduced to express, in a convenient way, the lifting of one pound to the height of a foot. Thus the quantity of heat necessary to raise the temperature of a pound of water One degree being taken as a standard, 772 foot-pounds constitute what is called the mechanical equivalent... | |
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