Recent improvements in arts, manufactures, and mines : being a supplement to his Dictionary (1844)
Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857, Ure, Andrew, 1778-1857. Dictionary of arts, manufactures, and mines · London : Printed for Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans · leaf 113
ections must be made for the influence of the vessel and for the heat dissipated during the time of the experiment. The following calorimeter, founded upon the same principle as that of Count Rum- ford, but with certain improvements, may be considered as an equally correct instrument for measuring… … (Scale about £ inch to the foot.) It consists of a large copper bath, e, f, (Jig. 51.) capable of holding 100 gallons of water. It is traversed four times, backwards and forwards, in four different levels, by a zig-zag horizontal flue, or flat pipe d, c, nine inches broad and one deep, ending below…
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