...the performance of work by some external agency) pass fiom a cold to a warmer body."—Clausius. " // is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below tke temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects."—(Lord Kelvin.) InClausius's form of the second...

...warming purposes, but he also enunciated what has just been stated, re the torrent of water, in another form: " It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from amy portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of surrounding objects." As a further example...

...lowered by pressure.* Two years later -fI gave the negative answer as an axiom in the following terms: "It is impossible, by means of inanimate material...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. If this axiom be denied for all temperatures, it would have to be admitted that a selfacting machine...

...from any body to another at a higher temperature.' This statement was modified by Thomson to read, ' It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.' The second law of thermodynamics is also sometimes taken as simply the expression of the principle...

...number of possible methods by which this energy can be put to use. We are told by another authority that "It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of surrounding objects." There is a world of difference in thermodynamics and the economics of energy...

...number of possible methods by which this energy can be put to use. We are told by another authority that "It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of surrounding objects." There is a world of difference in thermodynamics and the economics of energy...

...the possibility of the truth of the above statement is well stated by Lord Kelvin, when he says: " It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." This statement applies to work in cycles. If any one can do what Mr. Tripler...

...Kelvin, if we leave the word "inanimate" out of his enunciation. His statement of the axiom is:—" It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." It is legitimate here to omit the word " inanimate," as its insertion merely...

...Kelvin, if we leave the word "inanimate" out of his enunciation. His statement of the axiom is:—" It is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of surrounding objects." It is legitimate here to omit the word "inanimate," as its insertion merely means...

...the secrets of nature." ° He gave a demonstration of the second law, founding it upon the axiom that it is impossible, by means of inanimate material agency,...temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects. Further, by a most ingenious use of the integrating factor to solve the differential equation for the...