| Robert Lindsay Galloway - 1881 - 344 pages
...turned into vapour by heat has an elastic force like air, but upon cold supervening is resolved again into water, so that no trace of the said elastic force remains : / at once saw that machines could be constructed, in which water, by the help of a moderate heat,... | |
| James Alfred Ewing - 1894 - 424 pages
...same end, and since it is a property of water that a small quantity of it, converted into steam by heat, has an elastic force like that of air, but when...that no trace of the said elastic force remains, I saw that machines might be constructed wherein water, by means of no very intense heat and at small... | |
| United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Atomic Energy - 1971 - 1266 pages
...quantity of j; inmed into vapour by hcnt h;n an clastic force like that of air, but upon cold supervening is again resolved into water, so that no trace of the said elastic force remains. I concluded ttiat machines could be constructed wherein water, by the help of no very intense heat, and... | |
| Joseph Needham - 1987 - 838 pages
...of it, turned into vapour by heat, has an elastic force like that of air, but upon cold supervening is again resolved into water, so that no trace of the said elastic force remains, I readily concluded that machines could be constructed wherein water, by the help of no very intense... | |
| Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 pages
...quantity of it turned into vapour by heat has an elastic force like that of air, but upon cold supervening is again resolved into water, so that no trace of the said elastic force remains, I concluded that machines could be constructed wherein water, by the help of no very intense heat, and... | |
| 688 pages
...same end, and since it is a property of water that a small quantity of it, converted into steam by heat, has an elastic force like that of air, but when...that no trace of the said elastic force remains, I saw that machines might be constructed wherein water, by means of no very intense heat and at small... | |
| Henry Winram Dickinson - 1939 - 304 pages
...quantity of it turned into vapour by heat has an elastic force like that of air, but upon cold supervening is again resolved into water, so that no trace of the said elastic force remains, I concluded readily that machines could be constructed wherein water, by the help of no very intense... | |
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