A compendium of the course of chemical instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania / by Robert Hare.
- Robert Hare
- Date:
- 1834
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A compendium of the course of chemical instruction in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania / by Robert Hare. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.), through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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![X] Paije 39. —High pressure boiler - - - - . . - 33 That the temperature of steam increases with the pressure, demonstrated 33 Of the incompetency of a jet of high steam to scald at a certain distance from the aperture - 1 - - - - -34 40. —Experimental demonstration - - - - - - 34 41. —Of the steam engine - - - - - - 35 The principle of Savary's steam engine illustrated - - - 35 Of Savary's engine - - - .... 35 Of Newcomen's engine ....... 35 Of Watt's engine - ....... 30 Of the high pressure engine - - - - - 36 42. —Explosive power of steam - - - - - -36 Interesting experiments with respect to constrained vaporization, by Mr. Cagniard de la Tour, and Mr. Perkins - - - - - 37 43. —Cold and cloudiness arising from rarefaction - - - - 37 44. —Of the construction of the palm glass - - • - - 37 And of the cold produced by it - - - - 37 45. —Cold consequent to a relaxation of pressure - - - 38 Apparatus for showing the influence of relaxed pressure, on the capacity of air for heat, or moisture - - - - - - 38 46. —Of the influence of the Atmosphere in promoting Evaporation 39 Of the cold produced by the evaporation of ^ther, when accelerated by a current of air - • - - - - - - 40 Definition of vapour by Berzelius - - - • - 40 On the opponent influence of Pressure, on the extrication of Gaseous Substances from a state of Combination - - - 41 47. —Escape of carbonic acid from carbonate of lime, subjected to an acid pro- moted by exhaustion, and checked by condensation - - - 41 48. —Improved apparatus for showing the influence of pressure on efferves- cence - ... - - - - - - 41 Of the screw rod and plate frame, employed in the preceding and many other experiments A& Of capacities for Heat, or Specific Heat - - - 43 49. —Apparatus for illustrating capacities for heat - - - - 43 Of the slow communication of Heat, comprising the Conducting Process, and Circulation - - - 44 Of the conducting process in solids - 1c 50. —Inequality of conducting power experimentally illustrated - 1c Rationale of the fracture of glass, or porcelain, by heat - - 1c Table of the conducting power of various solids - - - - 45 Explanation of the process by which heat is supposed to be commum- cated in solids - 51—Liquids almost destitute of conducting power - - - - «> That liquids are almost devoid of power to conduct heat, proved by the inflammation of ether, over the bulb of an air thermometer, protected only by a thin stratum of water On the communication of Caloric by Circulation - - 46 That caloric cannot be communicated in liquids, unless it be so applied as to cause a circulation of the particles experimentally demoutaatol 40 53.-Experimental illustration of the process by which caloric is distributed ^ in a liquid until it boils - Of Radiation, or the quick communication of Caloric 49 54 -Model for illustrating the operation of ?°nc^mh1^ ndeBcent iron 55.-Phosphorus ignited at the distance of sixty feet, by an incandescent iron ^ SG.-oSe diversity of radiating power' in metals, wood, charcoal, glass, pot- ^ DiveTsit^of radiating power experimentally illustrated - - - 51](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21126483_0011.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
