Snow, Benjamin Warner, 1860- · Madison, Wis. · leaf 327
most zealous labor, Jouleannounced as the resultof these investigationsthat the work done bythe mass of one poundfalling through the dis-tance of 772 feet, whentransformed into heat,will raise the tempera-ture of 1-pound of water1° F. Expressed in termsof the modern units ofmeasurements, this is… … Fig 1S6. Joules device for determining tliemocl.anical equivalent of lieat. THE MECHANICAL EQUIVALENT OF HEAT. 323 AVliile these results were of the greatest importance, it wasrecognized that, inasmuch as Joule w^orked with a comparativelysmall amount of water, and that this was raised only a…
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