 | Alexander Ritchie Leask - Ice - 1895 - 292 pages
...surrounding objects, or by compression of the materials employed or acted upon, says : " It appears to me extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any...communicated in these experiments except it be motion." He estimated the heat produced to give the " mechanical equivalent" of the foot-pound as 7 8 3 '8 heat... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam engineering - 1895 - 614 pages
...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...capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments except it bo motion." Davy's experiment on... | |
 | Science - 1878 - 804 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." From this quotation... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1895 - 552 pages
...cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be MOTION." With regard to the illustration which compared heat to water... | |
 | Industrial arts - 1893 - 652 pages
...the Royal Society, Jan. 25, 1798, on heat generated by friction, stated as his opinion that it was " extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any...anything capable of being excited and communicated in those experiments except it be motion." Apprehending Lord Verulam meant it to be understood that matter... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1896 - 460 pages
...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance ; and it appears to me extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to 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." Rumford's experiment... | |
 | Henry Smith Carhart - Physics - 1896 - 466 pages
...impossible, to 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." Rumford's experiment was complete except that he did not proceed to determine the numerical relation... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam engineering - 1897 - 656 pages
...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...capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments except it be motion." Davy's experiment on... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - Steam - 1897 - 362 pages
...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...capable of being excited, and communicated in the manner heat was excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." Davy's experiment on... | |
 | John Theodore Merz - Philosophy, Modern - 1912 - 848 pages
...been derived, he comes to the conclusion that " it appears to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in those experiments, except it be motion." Davy, who, like Black,... | |
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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,... 
