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" Prom them we may infer, that the steam, while expanding in the cylinder, loses heat in quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force which it communicates by means of the piston ; and that on the condensation of the steam, the heat thus converted... "
Useful Information for Engineers: Being a Series of Lectures - Page 176
by Sir William Fairbairn - 1856
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The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science

1857 - 1142 pages
...as that of the piston in rubbing against the sides of the cylinder ; and they have also informed us that the steam, while expanding in the cylinder, loses...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force developed*. The experiments on the changes of temperature produced by the rarefaction and condensation...
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Useful Information for Engineers: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered ...

Sir William Fairbairn - 1860 - 458 pages
...different from the one generally received, but at the same time much more accordant with facts. From them we may infer, that the steam, while expanding...heat thus converted into power is not given back. The theory here advanced demands that, supposing no loss of heat to occur from radiation, &c. the heat...
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Useful Information for Engineers ...: Containing the Results of Experimental ...

Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 468 pages
...different from the one generally received, but at the same time much more accordant with facts. From them we may infer, that the steam, while expanding...heat thus converted into power is not given back. The theory here advanced demands, under the supposition that no loss of heat occurs from radiation,...
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Useful Information for Engineers; Being a Series of Lectures Delivered to ...

Sir William Fairbairn - 1864 - 472 pages
...different from the one generally received, but at the same time much more accordant with facts. From them we may infer, that the steam, while expanding...of the steam, the heat thus converted into power is gvnot given back. The theory here advanced demands, under the supposition that no loss of heat occurs...
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A Popular History of Science

Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...application of his principles to the theory of the steam-engine. " From them," he says, " we may mfer that the steam, while expanding in the cylinder, loses...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force FIG. 244.— JOULE'S APPARATUS. which it communicates by means of the piston ; and that, in the condensation...
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The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule, Volume 1

James Prescott Joule - 1884 - 706 pages
...as well as that of the piston in rubbing against the sides of the cylinder ; and they also inform us that the steam, while expanding in the cylinder, loses...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force developed*. The experiments on the changes of temperature produced by the rarefaction and condensation...
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Memoir of James Prescott Joule

Osborne Reynolds - 1892 - 236 pages
...erroneous. The principles, however, which I have advanced in this paper are free from this difficulty. From them we may infer that the steam while expanding in...it communicates by means of the piston, and that on condensation of the steam the heat, thus converted into power, is not given back. Supposing no loss...
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Transactions - Manchester Association of Engineers

Manchester Association of Engineers, Manchester, Eng - 1892 - 354 pages
...principles however which I have advanced in this paper (he says) are free from that difficulty. From them we may infer that the steam while expanding in...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force it communicates by means of the piston, and that on the condensation of the steam the heat thus converted...
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The Encyclopædia Britannica: Harmony-Hurstmonceaux

Hugh Chisholm - 1910 - 1006 pages
...direct experimental evidence in reasserting definitely the hypothesis of Séguin (loe. cit. p. 383) that " the steam while expanding in the cylinder loses...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force developed, and that on the condensation of the steam the heat thus converted into power is not given...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: Har to Ita

1910 - 1002 pages
...direct experimental evidence in reasserting definitely the hypothesis of Séguin (he. cit. p. 383) that " the steam while expanding in the cylinder loses...quantity exactly proportional to the mechanical force developed, and that on the condensation of the steam the heat thus converted into power is not given...
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