Author: Robert Vickers Dixon

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-01-30

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 9780267268931

Excerpt from Treatise on Heat, Vol. 1: The Thermometer; Dilation; Change of State; And Laws of Vapours The author cannot omit this opportunity of acknow ledging his obligations to Dr. Apjohn, Professor of Che mistry and Mineralogy to the School of Engineering, for much useful advice and many valuable suggestions kindly furnished by him during the progress of the fol lowing sheets through the Press. The author owes a similar acknowledgment to S. Downing, Esq., Assistant Professor of Engineering in the same School, in reference to the concluding paragraphs of Book I. Chap. I. Sect. 6. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.