Four Dialogues Between an Oxford Tutor and a Disciple of the Common-sense Philosophy: Relative to the Proximate Causes of Material PhenomenaSherwood, Jones & Company, 1824 - 204 páginas |
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Página 179 - And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas: and God saw that it was good.
Página 179 - The sacred historian expressly declares, that previously to the commencement of his history, " the earth was without form, and void, and that the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters...
Página 173 - ... the old system, steam was simultaneously generated ; and the continued addition accelerates the excitement of the water, on the principle of accelerated motion in falling bodies. From this effect of acceleration, which cannot be complete in an ordinary expanded boiler, Mr. Perkins obtains great excitement with much less fuel, or less gas-fixing, by combustion.
Página 172 - The atomic motion, transferred by the fixation of the gases in the process of the external combustion, passes through the substance of the vessel containing the water, and its first effect has been to convert the adjoining liquid into steam. Room being allowed...
Página 174 - ... water are placed in contact ; the atoms in water receive the motion, but are unable, for want of space, to exhibit any of it in forming steam ; the...
Página 172 - Room being allowed, in ordinary boilers, for the expansion of this steam, the ultimate force consisted only of the first simple force ; or, if accelerated, the acceleration depended on the vague dimensions and decreasing strength of an extended surface of boiler.
Página 172 - ... boiler or generator, home to the interior surface of his generator, and to keep it full, so that no...
Página 173 - P. has sufficiently excited his water, he allows some of it to escape, and every drop then evolves in steam many hundred times the original bulk. The excited...
Página 174 - ... till the excitement is sufficient to evolve gas of the required power. Rationally explained, Mr. P.'s machine is founded on...
Página 11 - Oh ! beyond all doubt, the species of attraction which causes a body to fall to the earth is of the, kind that is universal, or common to all matter.