 ... higher. In this way its mass would ascend : and at the moment when its highest point has been attained, it would represent the same number of raised foot-pounds as before it fell, never a greater number ; that is to say, living force can generate...  The American Journal of Science and Arts - Page 1861857Full view - About this book
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...form into the second, if we, for example, permitted the hammer to fall upon a highly elastic steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer...of springs. A weight which lies on the ground, an clastic spring which is without tension, can produce no effects ; to obtain such we must first raise... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...point has been attained, it would represent the same number of raised foot,-pounds as before it foil, never a greater number ; that is to say, living force...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1865 - 490 pages
...steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer would rebound, and in the most favourable case would reach a height equal to that from which...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans, William Robert Grove - 1865 - 500 pages
...when its highest point has been attained, it would represent the same number of raised foot-pounds aa before it fell, never a greater number; that is to...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | Edward Livingston Youmans - 1868 - 526 pages
...steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer would rebound, and in the most favourable cose would reach a height equal to that from which it fell,...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who windf the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | John Timbs - 1869 - 280 pages
...by which Pharaoh's astronomer-royal regulated his chronometers. THE HEAL WORKING FORCE OF A CLOCK. Our clocks are driven by means of sinking weights,...which is without tension, can produce no effects ; to obtaiu which we must first raise the weight or impart tension to the spring, which is accomplished... | |
 | 1859 - 448 pages
...form into the second, if we, for example, permitted the hammer to fall upon a highly elastic steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight, or... | |
 | Hermann Ludwig F. von Helmholtz - 1873 - 424 pages
...steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer would rebound, and in the most favourable case would reach a height equal to that from which...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1873 - 432 pages
...steel beam strong enough to resist the shock. The hammer would rebound, and in the most favourable case would reach a height equal to that from which...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
 | Hermann von Helmholtz - 1883 - 432 pages
...its production. It is therefore equivalent to this quantity of work. Our clocks are driven by meaus of sinking weights, and our watches by means of the...tension to the spring, which is accomplished when we wind up our clocks and watches. The man who winds the clock or watch communicates to the weight or... | |
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