...to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." ' He then goes on to urge a zealous and persistent investigation of the laws which govern this motion....

...source of heat generated by friction in these experiments appeared evidently to be inexhaustible. ' It is hardly necessary to add that anything which...DAVY'S EXPERIMENT ON THE MELTING OF ICE BY FRICTION. 32. On the recommendation of Count Rumford, Davy was appointed to a lecturership at the Royal Institution...

...friction appearing, from these experiments, to be inexhaustible, he was led to conclude that it was impossible to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner that heat was excited and communicated in these experiments except it was motion. 175. Davy in the...

...the following J remarkable conclusion : " It appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, EXCEPT IT BE MOTION." These experiments...

...cannot possibly be a material substance, and it appears to me to be extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments except by motion" A few years later Sir Humphrey Davy made his conclusive experiments,...

...caloric ? " and, after reviewing the whole series of experiments, he concluded, " It appears to me extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." There is, as will be seen in the sequel, good reason to FIQ....

...called caloric ? " and, after reviewing the whole series of experiments, he concluded, "It appears to me extremely difficult, if not impossible, to form any...anything capable of being excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be MOTION." There is, as will be seen in the sequel, good reason to Fia....

...producing the phenomena of heat. " It appears to me," he remarks, "extremely difficult, if not quite impossible, to form any distinct idea of anything...capable of being excited and communicated in the manner the heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion " *. One of the most...

...evidently to be inexhaustible. anything capable of being excited and communicated in the manner in which heat was excited and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." 28. When we make a calculation from the data furnished by Rumford's paper, we find that, supposing...

...form any distinct idea of any thing „capable of being excited, and communicated, in the manner the heat was „excited, and communicated in these experiments, except it be motion." **) Resarches on Heat, Light and Respiration in Dr. Beddoes West Country Contributions, p. IG. (Vergl....