 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 lapas
...inexhaustible'' and that therefore heat could not be a material substance. He had further inferred that 'it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing capable of being excited and communicated, in the manner the heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Joseph F. Keithley - 1999 - 264 lapas
...and stated "... that it is hardly necessary to add that anything which any insulated body or system can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance ..." In England, in the years before 1847, James Prescott Joule was interested in comparing an electric... | |
 | Peter T. Landsberg - 2019 - 334 lapas
...to the prophetic remark (1798) '...anything which any insulated body...can continually be furnished without limitation cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me...quite impossible to form any distinct ideas of anything capable of being excited and communicated... | |
 | Gerald James Holton, Stephen G. Brush - 2001 - 604 lapas
...experiments revealed that the source of heat generated "in these experiments appears to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add that anything which...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... | |
 | Harold H. Schobert - 2002 - 672 lapas
...consumed. But then where was the heat coming from, if not caloric leaking out of the cannon barrel? Anything which any insulated body, or system of bodies,...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated... | |
 | Tim Fulford - 2002 - 278 lapas
...experiments, appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can...material substance: and it appears to me to be extremely dillicult. if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited,... | |
 | Julian Seymour Schwinger - 2002 - 274 lapas
...be produced at a steady rate; the supply of heat seemed inexhaustible. He understood "that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can...to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a BOX 3-1 Benjamin Thomson, Count Rumford Born in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the year 1753, Thomson was... | |
 | Malcolm S. Longair - 2003 - 592 lapas
...the source of heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add. that anything which...limitation cannot possibly be a material substance; it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything... | |
 | Len Fisher - 2003 - 282 lapas
.... the source of the Heat generated by friction, in these Experiments, appears to be inexhaustible. It is hardly necessary to add, that anything which any insulated body . . . can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance; and it appears... | |
 | John H. Lienhard - 2006 - 288 lapas
...Finally, as a consequence of his experiments, Rumford was able to state quite plainly: Anything which an insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue...not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of any thing, capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the Heat was excited and communicated... | |
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It is hardly necessary to add, that any thing which any insulated body, or system of bodies, can continue to furnish without limitation, cannot possibly be a material substance... 
