 | 1861 - 460 síður
...and at two hours thirty minutes the water actually boiled. " It would be difficult (says the Count) to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances of the bvstanders on seeing so large a quantity of cold water (id est, 2J wine gallons) heated, and actually... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1866 - 492 síður
...it was 200°, and at two hours and thirty minutes from the commencement tf,e water actually boiled! Rumford's description of the effect of this experiment...says, ' to describe the surprise and astonishment erpressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of water heated, and... | |
 | John Tyndall - 1868 - 560 síður
...200°, and at two hours and thirty minutes from the commencement the water actually boiled ! Itumford's description of the effect of this experiment on those...astonishment expressed in the countenances of the by* Philosophical Magazine, 4th Scries, vol. xxiii. pp. 265, 347, 435. t An abstract of this paper... | |
 | Benjamin Graf von Rumford - 1870 - 608 síður
...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...of the bystanders, on seeing so large a quantity of cold water heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing... | |
 | 1871 - 400 síður
...boiling water, originally at a temperature of sixty degrees Fahrenheit, in two hours and a half. " It would be difficult," he says, " to describe the...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of... | |
 | 1871 - 632 síður
...difficult," he says, " to deOharloi Dickem, Jan.] SCIENCE AND IMAGINATION. [January 2l 1S71J 177 scribe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenances...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." Dr. Tyndall, being short of time, produced the same effect, by similar means, on a small quantity of... | |
 | Bence Jones - 1871 - 486 síður
...the heat come from the air ? Exclusion of the air did not in the smallest degree diminish the heat. ' It would be difficult,' he says, ' to describe the...expressed in the countenances of the bystanders on seeing a large quantity of cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. ' Though there was,... | |
 | George Edward Ellis - 1871 - 750 síður
...half " IT ACTUALLY BOILED ! " The philosopher shall speak for himself: — " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed...of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of .cold water heated and actually made to boil without any fire. Though there was, in fact, nothing that... | |
 | George Miller Beard - 1875 - 1090 síður
...— " It would be difficult to describe the surprise and astonishment expressed in the countenance of the bystanders on seeing so large a quantity of...heated, and actually made to boil, without any fire." "Just fifty years subsequently to the experiment of Rumford. (according to Prof. EL Youmans), Dr. JP... | |
 | Arabella Burton Buckley - 1876 - 532 síður
...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... | |
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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. 
