 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1876 - 416 pàgines
...cannon, and all the machinery that was engaged in the process. He says : — ' It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...the by-standers, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. ' Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | Thomas Minchin Goodeve - 1879 - 364 pàgines
...enthusiastic recital of the effect upon those who witnessed it, and exclaims : ' It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...heated and actually made to boil without any fire.' He goes on to say : — ' By meditating on the results of these experiments, we are naturally brought... | |
 | Arabella Burton Fisher - 1879 - 550 pàgines
...actually boiled. ' It would be difficult,' writes Rumford, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated and actually made to boil without any fire,' and he adds that he himself was as delighted as a child at the success of the experiment ; and we can... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1881 - 572 pàgines
...vol. xx'.ii. pp. 265, 847, 485. f An abstract of this paper is giveu in the Appendix to Chapter II. Rumford's description of the effect of this experiment...astonishment expressed in the countenances of the by-standcrs on seeing so large a quantity of water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire.... | |
 | Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pàgines
...motion, until at the end of z\ hours the water actually boiled. " It would be difficult," says Rumford, " to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Yet, of the ways in which heat can be artificially produced, that in which it is developed by friction... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1889 - 532 pàgines
...at the end of two and a-half hours the water boiled. Count Rumford said — "It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...heated, and actually made to boil without any fire ! " He adds — " By meditating on the results of these experiments, we are naturally brought to that... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1893 - 548 pàgines
...actually boiled. ' It would be difficult,' writes Rumford, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated and actually made to boil without any fire,' and he adds that he himself was as delighted as a child at the success of the experiment; and we can... | |
 | 1871 - 632 pàgines
...half. "It would be difficult," he says, "to deClurlei Uickeiu, Jun.] [January 21 1871.] 177 scribe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tvndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of... | |
 | William Gay Ballantine - 1896 - 200 pàgines
...hours 20 minutes it was at 200°; and at 2 hours 30 minutes it actually boiled. " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...the by-standers, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | Andrew Jamieson - 1897 - 656 pàgines
...at the end of two and a-half hours the water boiled. Count Bumford said — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...heated, and actually made to boil without any fire ! " He adds — " By meditating on the results of these experiments, we are naturally brought to that... | |
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BOILED ! It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. 
