 A wheel, revolving with a rapidity sufficient to render its spokes invisible, when illuminated by a flash of lightning, is seen for an instant with all its spokes distinct, as if it were in a state of absolute repose ; because...  Supplementary Verses - Стр. 3авторы: Chandos Leigh - 1841 - Страниц: 96Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | 1842 - Страниц: 496
...ascertain, if possible, the velocity of the electric fluid in its passage from one body to another. " The velocity of electricity is so great, that the most rapid motion which can be produced by art appears to be actual rest when compared with it. A wheel revolving with... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1844 - Страниц: 512
...thirtyseven days ; and a cannon ball, proceeding with its greatest speed, in not less than twenty years. The velocity of Electricity is so great, that the...rest when compared with it. A wheel, revolving with a rapidity sufficient to render its spokes invisible, when illuminated by a flash of lightning, is... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1846 - Страниц: 496
...whence those lambent diffuse flashes of lightning without thunder so frequent in warm summer evenings. The velocity of electricity is so great, that the most rapid motion which can be produced by art appears to be actual rest when compared with it. A wheel revolving with... | |
 | Mary Somerville - 1849 - Страниц: 568
...whence those lambent, diffuse flashes of lightning without thunder, so frequent in warm summer evenings. The velocity of electricity is so great that the most rapid motion which can be produced by art appears to be actual rest when compared with it. A wheel revolving with... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1855 - Страниц: 574
...thirty-seven days, and a cannon ball, proceeding with its greatest speed, in not less than twenty years. (156) The velocity of Electricity is so great, that the...rest when compared with it. A wheel, revolving with a rapidity sufficient to render its spokes invisible, when illuminated by a flash of Electricity, is... | |
 | Henry Minchin Noad - 1867 - Страниц: 542
...case of charging an increasing number of equal electrical jars. (34) Velocity of Electricity. — This is so great that the most rapid motion that can be...rest •when compared with it. A wheel revolving with a rapidity sufficient' £> render its spokes invisible, when illuminated by a flash of electricity... | |
 | Amyclanus (pseud.) - 1876 - Страниц: 358
...with which electricity travels is indeed very wonderful. As exemplified in the case of lightning, it is so great that the most rapid motion that can be produced by art appears, as compared with it, to be no motion at all. A wheel revolving with such rapidity as to render the... | |
 | 1844 - Страниц: 768
...thirty-seven days ; and a canon ball proceeding with its greatest 'speed, in not less than twenty years. The velocity of electricity is so great, that the...rest when compared with it. A wheel revolving with a rapidity sufficient to render its spokes invisible, when illuminated by a flash of lightning, is... | |
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