 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1798 - 550 σελίδες
...SOURCE of the HEAT which is EXCITED by FRICTION. [Read before the ROYAL SOCIETY, January 251 1798.] •IT frequently happens, that in the ordinary affairs •*• and occupations of life, opportunities prefent themfelves of contemplating fome of the moft curious operations of Nature ; and very interefting... | |
 | William Nicholson - 1799 - 652 σελίδες
...concerning tie Source of tie Heat which is excited by Friction*. By COUNT of RVMFOKD, FRS, MRIA AT frequently happens that, in the ordinary affairs and occupations of life, opportunities prefent themfelves of contemplating fome of the moft curious operations of nature ; and From the Philofophical... | |
 | 1864 - 560 σελίδες
...of caunon in the Arsenal ; indeed, he remarks, that " very interesting philosophical experiments may often be made, almost without trouble or expense,...mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures." He was struck with the very great heat developed by the friction or attrition of the steel borer on... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 512 σελίδες
...intuition of the true investigator, he remarks that " very interesting philosophical experiments may often be made, almost without trouble or expense, by means of machinery contrived for mere mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures." Accordingly, he mounted a metallic cylinder... | |
 | Peter Guthrie Tait - 1868 - 148 σελίδες
...of cannon in the Arsenal; indeed, he remarks, that ' very interesting philosophical experiments may often be made, almost without trouble or expense,...mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures.' He was struck with the very great heat developed by the friction or attrition of the steel borer on... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 σελίδες
...IS EXCITED BY FRICTION. AN INQUIRY CONCERNING THE SOURCE OF THE HEAT WHICH IS EXCITED BY FRICTION. IT frequently happens that in the ordinary affairs...experiments might often be made, almost without trouble or expence, by means of machinery contrived for the mere mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures.... | |
 | 1892 - 280 σελίδες
...intuition of the true investigator, he remarks that "very interesting philosophical experiments may often be made, almost without trouble or expense, by means of machinery contrived for mere mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures." Accordingly he mounted a metallic cylinder... | |
 | I.F. Goldstein, M. Goldstein - 1984 - 428 σελίδες
...mounted in the machine used for boring. (Reproduced with the permission of Harvard University Press.) It frequently happens that in the ordinary affairs...mechanical purposes of the arts and manufactures. . . . Being engaged lately in superintending the boring of cannon in the workshops of the military... | |
 | Alan L. Mackay - 1991 - 312 σελίδες
...World and the Individual (Gilford Lectures) 1900-1901 Count Rumford [Benjamin Thompson] 1753-1814 44 It frequently happens that in the ordinary affairs...contemplating some of the most curious operations of nature. An Inquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which if Excited by Friction. Read to the Royal Society... | |
 | S. George Philander - 1998 - 282 σελίδες
...The following passage is from an essay Count Rumford read before the Royal Society of London in 1798. It frequently happens that in the ordinary affairs...means of machinery contrived for the mere mechanical purpose of the arts and manufactures . . . Being engaged, lately, in superintending the boring of cannon,... | |
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It frequently happens, that in the ordinary affairs and occupations of life, opportunities present themselves of contemplating some of the most curious operations of Nature ; and very interesting philosophical experiments might often be made, almost without... 
