Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture: Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions ..., Volume 12

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G. and T. Wilkie, 1800
 

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Page 256 - ... in the manner in which the water loft the additional weight which it had appeared...
Page 383 - ... by means of the fold.- — Two ewe flocks are kept, of four hundred each : the foil being light and dry, admits of winter-folding (except when the weather is wet), upon, the young clover ;— a practice much to be recommended, as it is productive of a great crop of clover, and prepares the land the cnfuing autumn for a crop of wheat, without any further affiftance.
Page 323 - ... motion. It is, no doubt, upon the supposition that heat is a substance distinct from the heated body, and which is accumulated in it, that all the experiments which have been undertaken with a view to determine the weight which bodies have been supposed to gain or to lose upon being heated or cooled, have been made; and upon this supposition, — but without, however, adopting it entirely, as I do not conceive it to be sufficiently proved, — all my researches have been directed.
Page 259 - ... equilibrium, and were then removed, attached to the arms of the balance, into a room in which the air was at the temperature of 26°, where they were left all night. The result of this trial...
Page 323 - ... passing from one body to another, and being accumulated, is the immediate cause of the phenomena we observe in heated bodies, (of which, however, I cannot help entertaining doubts,) it...
Page 340 - Gordon, (two other gentlemen of the committee,) and two gardeners who were prefent, that fuch caterpillars as were wetted by the liquor Mr. Henderfon employs, were killed in a very few minutes ; and the experiment has been repeated by my own gardener, with the fame effect. I have likewife found, that it kills a kind of green fly, which is very hurtful to the leaves of plumb-trees and other fruit trees.
Page 339 - ... eaten, or the eggs upon the leaves (which* generally happens about the end of May) and which will be found in great numbers on the veins of the leaves on their under...
Page 258 - I had only to repeat the experiment, caufing the two bottles A and B to change places upon the arms of the balance. ; but, as I had already found a fenfible difference in the refults of different repetitions of the...
Page 251 - HE various experiments which have hitherto been made with a view to determine the...
Page 320 - I had the pleafure to find the three thermometers, viz. that in the bottle A, (which was now inclofed in a folid cake of ice,) that in the bottle B, and that...

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