| Physics - 1829 - 500 pages
...this principle the thermometric barometer of the Rev. Mr. Wollaston is constructed, which indicates the elevation of any place above the level of the sea, by the difference in the heat required to make water boil at that ele-, vation. A difference of one degree... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 366 pages
...pressure is removed. Upon this principle is constructed the thermometric barometer, which indicates the elevation of any place above the level of the sea, by the temperature at which water boils at that elevation. By experiment it has been found that a difference... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1831 - 368 pages
...pressure is removed. Upon this principle is constructed the thermometeric barometer, which indicates the elevation of any place above the level of the sea, by the temperature at which water boils at that elevation. By experiment it has been found that a difference... | |
| John Lee Comstock - Chemistry - 1836 - 366 pages
...pressure is removed. Upon this principle is constructed the thermometeric barometer, which indicates the elevation of any place above the level of the sea, by the temperature at which water boils at that elevation. By experiment it has been found that a difference... | |
| Horatio Nelson Robinson - Navigation - 1858 - 356 pages
...method of taking levels and making a profile of the vertical section of a line for rail roads, is Bet forth in this work. The profile shows the necessary...connects the elevation of any locality with the mean hight of the barometer at the same place, has been an obscure problem, and we have taken hold of it... | |
| 1862 - 970 pages
...pressure is removed. Upon this principle is constructed the thermomelric barometer, which indicates the elevation of any place above the level of the sea, by the temperature at which water boils at that elevation. By experiment, it has been found that a difference... | |
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