| Physics - 1861 - 612 pages
...the vortices being separated by a layer of particles, revolving each on its own axis in the opposite direction to that of the vortices, so that the contiguous...wheel is generally made to rotate about a fixed axle j but in epicyclic trains and other contrivances, as, for instance, in Siemens's governor for steam-engines*,... | |
| Charles Coulston Gillispie - Science - 1960 - 596 pages
...Maxwell turned to the real engineers in his extremity, and imported into the aether the device of the "idle" wheel: "The hypothesis about the vortices which...vortices revolve in the same direction with itself." But Maxwell needed play in his medium and could not do with fixed axles for his aetherial idle wheels;... | |
| Daniel M. Siegel - Science - 2003 - 244 pages
...that this kind of problem had been encountered, and solved, by the designers of mechanical devices: In mechanism, when two wheels are intended to revolve...vortices revolve in the same direction with itself. (Maxwell's pictorial rendering of the system of vortices and idle-wheel particles - as in Figure 2.2... | |
| Thomas K. Simpson - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 468 pages
...are intended to revolve in the same direction, a wheel is placed between them so as to be in gear 460 with both, and this wheel is called an "idle wheel."...vortices revolve in the same direction with itself. 465 In mechanism, the idle wheel is generally made to rotate about a fixed axle; but in epicyclic trains... | |
| Peter Michael Harman - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 264 pages
...wheel' is placed between two wheels that are intended to revolve in the same direction, he suggests that a layer of particles, acting as idle wheels,...vortices revolve in the same direction with itself. (SP, 1: 467-8) The figure he uses to provide a physical representation of this model of rotating vortices... | |
| Crosbie Smith - Science - 1998 - 424 pages
...represent electric current (Maxwell 1861-2). Maxwell placed small spherical particles between the vortices: 'a layer of particles, acting as idle wheels, is interposed...each vortex has a tendency to make the neighbouring vortex revolve in the same direction with itself (Figure 11. 1).6' The movement or transference of... | |
| Joke Meheus - History - 2002 - 248 pages
...introduction of "idle wheels". On this basis he proposed to enhance his imaginary model by supposing that "a layer of particles, acting as idle wheels is interposed between each vortex and the next" (p. 468). He stipulated that the particles would revolve in place without slipping or touching in direction... | |
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