TYNDALL remarks, *I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer. I have also seen snowflakes descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles... Report - Page 277by New Hampshire. Department of Agriculture - 1884Full view - About this book
| National Sunday school union - 1871 - 598 pages
...material demands an energy competent to gather up the scattered blocks of the largest stone avalanches I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from, which they fell." Who but, considering these things, must enter somewhat into the feelings of the patriarch, when God... | |
| James Samuelson, Henry Lawson, William Sweetland Dallas - 1876 - 508 pages
...; yet to produce from aqueous vapour a quantity which a child could carry of that tender material, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...largest stone avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them twice the height from which they fell."f When galvanic electricity is employed to decompose water,... | |
| EDWARDL.YOUMANS,M.D. - 1863 - 468 pages
...water, is equal to the fall of a ton weight down a precipice 433 feet high. 281. Prof. TYNDALL remarks, *I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps,...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell.' §VI. Liquefaction — Freezing — Ebullition. 282. The amount of force consumed in producing liquefaction... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 500 pages
...not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell. I will now... | |
| John Tyndall - 1863 - 538 pages
...not to hurt the fragile spangles of which they were composed ; yet to produce, from aqueous vapour, a quantity of that tender material which a child could...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the height from which they fell. I will now... | |
| Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (NEW YORK), Josiah Parsons COOKE - 1864 - 376 pages
...magnitude of the energy which these atomic motions represent. "I have seen," says Professor Tyndall, " the wild stone avalanches of the Alps, which smoke...pitch them to twice the height from which they fell." If such, then, be the measure of these atomic motions, we can easily conceive how the motion of the... | |
| 1865 - 648 pages
...the third is equal to the descent of a ton down a precipice four hundred and thirty-three feet high. I have seen the wild stone avalanches of the Alps,...them to twice the height from which they fell."— Page 164. Thus far heat has only been considered as existing in the bodies in which it was generated.... | |
| 1865 - 388 pages
...equal to thtT descent of a tun down a precipice 433 feet high. I have seen the wild stone-avalanches of the Alps, which smoke and thunder down the declivities...competent to gather up the shattered blocks of the largest stone-avalanche I have ever seen, and pitch them to twice the hight from which they fall. — Tyndall... | |
| 1865 - 648 pages
...declivities with a vehemence almost sufficient to stun the observer; I have also seen snow-flake's descending so softly as not to hurt the fragile spangles...them to twice the height from which they fell."— Page 164. Thus far heat has only been considered as existing in the bodies in which it was generated.... | |
| 1865 - 656 pages
...composed ; yet to produce from aqueous vapor a quantity of that tender material which a child could cany, demands an exertion of energy competent to gather...them to twice the height from which they fell."— Page 164. Thus far heat has only been considered as existing in the bodies in which it was generated.... | |
| |