Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 1. köide,2. osaColin Macfarquhar, George Gleig A. Bell and C. Macfarquhar, 1797 |
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Page 410
... heat of the room by a diminished consumption of fuel . Chimney , fame fize , which is either filled with burning coals , or a fire of wood and other inflammable fubftances is made in it . When this is done , they place over the hole or ...
... heat of the room by a diminished consumption of fuel . Chimney , fame fize , which is either filled with burning coals , or a fire of wood and other inflammable fubftances is made in it . When this is done , they place over the hole or ...
Page 411
... heat , is fent off from the fire in rays in all poffible directions . With respect to the fecond fubject of inquiry , name- ly , how this heat , exifting under these two different forms , is communicated to other bodies , it is highly ...
... heat , is fent off from the fire in rays in all poffible directions . With respect to the fecond fubject of inquiry , name- ly , how this heat , exifting under these two different forms , is communicated to other bodies , it is highly ...
Page 727
... heat , and without the aid of a fpark . It is to this circumftance , how- ever , that its fuperior ftrength feems to be in a great measure owing . Gunpow- diameter of the bore of his mufket is exactly the fame der as that of a common ...
... heat , and without the aid of a fpark . It is to this circumftance , how- ever , that its fuperior ftrength feems to be in a great measure owing . Gunpow- diameter of the bore of his mufket is exactly the fame der as that of a common ...
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