 | James Johnson - 1815 - 564 páginas
...Let two beds be placed in the same room, at Madras, we will say, when the thermometer stands at 90" ; and let one be covered with a pair of blankets, the...On removing both coverings in the evening, the bed, on^which was placed the blankets, will be found cool and pleasant ; the" other uncomfortably warm,... | |
 | James Johnson - 1826 - 428 páginas
...two beds be placed in the .same room, at Madras, we will say, when the thermometer stands at 90° ; and let one be covered with a pair of blankets, the...reason is obvious. The linen readily transmitted the beat of the atmosphere to all parts of the subjacent bed ; the woollen, on the contrary, as a non-conductor,... | |
 | Thomas John Graham - 1828 - 426 páginas
...Let two beds be placed in the same room at Madras, we will say, when the thermometer stands at 90° ; and let one be covered with a pair of blankets, the...reason is obvious. The linen readily transmitted the heal of the atmosphere to all parts of the subjacent bed ; the woollen, on the contrary, as a non-conductor,... | |
 | Martin Doyle, William Hickey - 1857 - 202 páginas
...— suppose at Madras — when the thermometer stands at 90° ; let one be covered with a blanket, the other with a pair of linen sheets during the day. On removing both covers in the evening, the bed on which the blankets were laid will be found cool and pleasant, and... | |
 | John Murray (Firm) - 1859 - 412 páginas
...readily proved by placing two beds in the same room when the thermometer stands at 90°, and covering one with a pair of blankets the other with a pair of linen sheets. On removing both coverings in the evening, the bed on which the blankets were placed will be found... | |
 | 1864 - 486 páginas
...readily proved by placing two beds in the same room when the tlicrmometer stands at 90° and covering one with a pair of blankets, the other with a pair of linen sheets. On removing both coverings in the evening, the bed on which the blankets were placed will be found... | |
 | James Africanus Beale Horton - 1867 - 366 páginas
...— " Let two beds l;e placed in the same room during the day, when the thermometer stands at 90°, and let one be covered with a pair of blankets, the other with a pair of linen sheets." On removing both coverings in the evening, the bed with the blankets will be found cool. Being a non-conductor... | |
 | John Murray (Firm), Edward Backhouse Eastwick - 1879 - 536 páginas
...proved by placing two beds in the same room when the thermometer stands at 'J0°. and covering one with a pair of blankets, the other with a pair of linen sheets. On removing lx>th coverings in the evening, the bed on which the blankets were placed will be found... | |
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... be readily granted ; but that they should be cooler in high temperatures will probably be much doubted. If the following easy experiment be tried, the result will decide the point in question. Let two beds be placed in the same room at Madras, we... 