Well's natural philosophy : for the use of schools, academies and privte students, introducing the latest results of scientific discovery and research ; arranged with special reference to the practical application of physical science to the arts and the experiences of everyday life ; with three hundred and seventy-five engravings (1873)
Wells, David A · New York : Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor and Co. · leaf 257
he surface of the seaand the land, persons and information from town to town, and from country to country,with a spped as much exceeding the ordinary wind, as the ordinary wind exceeds that ofa pedestrian.—Lardner, 252 WELLSS NATURAL PHILOSOPHY. How is steam 576. Steam is rendered useful for… … impulse in the open air, because the momentum of solight a fluid, milcss generated in vast quantities, wouldbe inconsidi,Table. The first attempts, however, toemploy steam as a moving power, consisted in direct-ing a current of steam from the mouth of a tube againstthe floats or vanes of a…
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