 the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snow-flakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed...  Heat, a Mode of Motion - Pàgina 135per John Tyndall - 1873 - 532 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | 1869 - 632 pàgines
...not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; — yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." And now that we have seen what a tremendous amount of energy is involved in such processes as the formation... | |
 | John Henry Pepper - 1869 - 722 pàgines
...as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity, which a child could carry, of that tender...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." CAPACITY FOR HEAT. This term, which is most simple and useful, expresses a fact that has been forced... | |
 | 1869 - 730 pàgines
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." Shall not these forces in which nature is so prodigal be utilized in the art and service of man ? There... | |
 | 1870 - 502 pàgines
...an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche 1 have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' "Even as wonderful is the ' force-equivalent' of the rain-showers which nourish our ñelds. We can... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 394 pàgines
...as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' We may point out in this place the important connection which exists between the rainfall of a country... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1871 - 550 pàgines
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanches I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' And when we have thus seen what a tremendous amount of energy is involved in such processes as the... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - 1871 - 620 pàgines
...demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen and pitch them to twice the height from which theyfell." — //«if, a Mode of Motion. (See also Specific Heat; Internal Workofa ¡lass of Matter.)... | |
 | Richard Anthony Proctor - 1873 - 340 pàgines
...as not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' We may point out in this place the important connection which exists between the rainfall of a country... | |
 | George Farrer Rodwell - 1873 - 752 pàgines
...an exertion of energy competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the large.- 1 stone avalanche I have ever seen and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." — Heat, a Mode of Motion. (See also Specific Heat; Internal Work of a Mass of Matter.) Lateral Fressure... | |
 | 1874 - 806 pàgines
...carry, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather up the blocks of the largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." Who, then, shall estimate the potential energy of the great ice-rivers of the Alps, or of the glaciers... | |
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