Elementary treatise on physics experimental and applied for the use of colleges and schools (1890)
Ganot, A. (Adolphe), 1804-1887, Atkinson, E. (Edmund) · New York : W. Wood · leaf 493
everal physicists, by their theoreticaland experimental investigations, have contributed to establish the mechanicaltheory of heat : namely, in this country. Sir W. Thomson and Rankine ; in(jermany, Helmholtz, Clausius, and Holtzmann ; and in France, Clapeyron,and Regnault. The following are some… … vertical axis. Two weights, E and F, were attached to cords which passedover the pulleys C and D, and were connected with the axis A. Theseweights in falling cause the wheel to rotate. The height of the fall, which inJoules experiments was about 63 feet, was indicated on the scales G and H. The…
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