 | Science - 1853 - 336 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, includin graountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native...above. Meteoric sources, including only the heat of newly fallen meteoric bodies, and the combustion of meteoric iron, need not be reckoned among those... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1853 - 476 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, inducting mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native sulphur, (perhaps also the combustion of inorganic native combustibles,) are actually used ; but the mechanical effect obtained from them is... | |
 | Dionysius Lardner - 1853 - 484 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, including mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native sulphur, (perhaps also the combustion of inorganic native combustibles,) are actually used ; but the mechanical effect obtained from them is... | |
 | Electrical engineering - 1881 - 566 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, including mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native sulphur, perhaps also the combustion of inorganic native combust,bles, are actually used; but the mechanical effect obtained from them is very... | |
 | British Association for the Advancement of Science - Science - 1882 - 1050 pages
...actually used ; but tfe mechanical effect obtained from them is very inconsiderable, compared with th« which is obtained from sources belonging to the two...only the heat of newly-fallen meteoric bodies, and tie combustion of meteoric iron, need not be reckoned among those available to nun for practical purposes.'... | |
 | Engineering - 1882 - 566 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. The terrestrial sources, including mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native sulphur, perhaps also the combustion of inorganic native combustibles, are actually used ; but the mechanical effect obtained from them is... | |
 | Science - 1882 - 904 pages
...See hi3 " Astronomy," edition 1849, § 399. restrial sources, including mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native sulphur — perhaps, also, the combustion of inorganic native combustibles — are actually used ; but the mechanical effect obtained from them... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Science - 1894 - 628 pages
..." the heat of hot springs, and the combustion " of native sulphur, perhaps also the combustion " of inorganic native combustibles, are actually " used...meteoric " iron, need not be reckoned among those avail" able to man for practical purposes." Thus we may summarise the natural sources of energy as... | |
 | William Thomson Baron Kelvin - Geology - 1894 - 624 pages
..." on the earth from external space. Terrestrial " sources, including mountain quarries and mines, " the heat of hot springs, and the combustion " of native sulphur, perhaps also the combustion " of inorganic native combustibles, are actually " used ; but the mechanical effect obtained from " them... | |
 | Physics - 1852 - 1172 pages
...deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, including mountain quarries and mines, the heat of hot springs, and the combustion of native...above. Meteoric sources, including only the heat of newly -fallen meteoric bodies, and the combustion of meteoric iron, need not be reckoned among those... | |
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... terrestrial — that is, belonging to the earth, and available without the influence of any external body, — or meteoric, — that is, belonging to bodies deposited on the earth from external space. Terrestrial sources, including mountain quarries... 