 | James Prescott Joule - 1884 - Страниц: 706
...obtain from my electro-magnetic engine by the consumption of a Ib. of zinc. This comparison is so very unfavourable that I confess I almost despair of the...the arrangement of its parts could be improved so far as to make the duty per Ib. of zinc superior to the duty of the best steam-engines per Ib. of coal.... | |
 | Osborne Reynolds - 1892 - Страниц: 236
...extreme duty that I was able to obtain from my electro-magnetic engine by the consumption of a lb. of zinc. This consumption is so unfavourable that...its parts could be improved so as to make the duty per I lb. of zinc superior to the duty of the best steam engines per lb. of coal ; and even if this... | |
 | Alexander Wood - 1925 - Страниц: 118
...obtain from my electromagnetic engine by the consumption of 1 pound of zinc. This comparison is so very unfavourable that I confess I almost despair of the...the arrangement of its parts could be improved so far as to make the duty per pound of zinc superior to the duty of the best steam-engine's per pound... | |
 | Rutherford Aris, Howard Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer - 1983 - Страниц: 355
...world. And as the battery fuel, zinc, was much more expensive than coal, he felt compelled to write: "I confess I almost despair of the success of electromagnetic attractions as an economical source of power."21 A few years later the electric euphoria was over, and electric motors, from which so much... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - Страниц: 906
...This comparison [between Joule's electromagnetic engine and the best Cornish steam engines] is so very unfavourable that I confess I almost despair of the...the arrangement of its parts could be improved so far as to make the duty per Ib. of zinc superior to the duty of the best steam-engines per Ib. of coal.... | |
 | Crosbie Smith, M. Norton Wise - 1989 - Страниц: 906
...This comparison [between Joule's electromagnetic engine and the best Cornish steam engines] is so very unfavourable that I confess I almost despair of the...the arrangement of its parts could be improved so far as to make the duty per Ib. of zinc superior to the duty of the best steam-engines per Ib. of coal.... | |
 | Crosbie Smith - 1998 - Страниц: 424
...pound of zinc'.31 With such a very unfavourable comparison, Joule confessed that he almost despaired 'of the success of electro-magnetic attractions as...economical source of power; for although my machine was by no means perfect, I do not see how the arrangement of its parts could be improved so far as... | |
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This comparison is so very unfavourable that I confess I almost despair of the success of electro-magnetic attractions as an economical source of power ; for although my machine is by no means perfect, I do not see how the arrangement of its parts could... 