Mechanical and marine engineering science ... Specially written as a handbook to the Board of Trade examinations for extra-first-class engineers (1909)
Somerscales, A. N · Glasgow : J. Munro; London, Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent · leaf 44
olished brass so as to radiate as little heat aspossible to surrounding bodies, and is also protected from the radia-tion of the hot chamber and of the boiler by screens containing coldwater. Loss or gain of heat by conduction is prevented by makingthe vessel rest upon three pointed feet.… … Fig. II. chamber H through the hole in the top, and allowed to remain untilit had acquired the same temperature as the chamber (say 212degs.), as tested by a thermometer in the same wire cage. The 42 CALORIMETERS. temperature of the water in W would now be read off and the slideS opened, so as to…
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