How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General IndexServiss, Garrett Putman
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How to Use the Popular Science Library; History of Science; General Index
Serviss, Garrett Putman
Popular science library; Science -- History
Energy, conservation of, iv, 40-1 (see Conservation of Energy);
defined, 13-14, 37-9;
equation of, 78;
force contrasted with, 41;
forms and transformations, 81-8;
future sources of, v, 171-81;
heat equivalent (see Mechanical Equivalent of Heat);
kinetic and potential, iv, 79, 81-5, vii, 368;
matter and, iv, 13-14;
of plants and animals, viii, 334, 335, 336, 347, 349, 350
(see also
Human Energy);
physics as science of, iv, 12, 13-14, 50;
power differentiated from, 80;
radiant (see Radiant Energy);
sources in nature, viii, 267-8, ix, 25-6, xiv, 31-2;
sun as source of, v, 177, viii, 267, 334, 350, ix, 25-6, xiv, 32;
transference and transformation of, iv, 37-41, 81-88, vi, 128-9;
units of, iv, 79-80, ix, 295;
unit equivalents table, vii, 382;
universality of, iv, 13-14;
work and, 37-40, 78-88;
(see also Atomic E., Chemical E., Electrical E., Human E., Molecular
E., Power)
Engines, air and water cooled, v, 160-1;
Clausius's principle, xvi, 135;
heat, efficiency of, iv, 192;
reciprocating and rotary, v, 148;
two-cycle and four-cycle, 157-9;
(see also Gas Engines, Gasoline Engines, Internal Combustion Engines,
Steam Engines, etc.)
Engines of Destruction, v, 359-75
England, Alpine Invasion, xvi, 49;
beet cultivation in, xiii, 216;
"Blackthorn winter," i, 363;
chalk deposits, iii, 266;
climate of, xiv, 345;
coal supply, v, 172;
coast destruction, iii, 56, xiv, 47, 301;
coffee consumption, xiii, 232;
early criminal justice in, xv, 372;
first recorded eclipse, ii, 210;
former connections with Europe, xiv, 271-3, xv, 76;
grass snake of, xii, 217-18;
insular position and results, xiv, 279-81, xv, 137;
iron industry, v, 316;
jute manufacture, xii, 243;
lakes of, xiv, 200;
landscape gardening, xiii, 267, 268;
maritime supremacy, xiv, 262, 280-1, 307-8, 310;
oak-hazel copses, xiii, 369-70;
primitive inhabitants, xv, 83, 92-3;
rainfall and verdure, xiv, 352;
recent restrictions on power vehicles, v, 212-13;
smallpox inoculation in, x, 207;
sugar in, xiii, 215;
surgery made a profession, x, 105;
tea in, xiii, 228-9;
tobacco introduction, 256;
trees in, xiv, 375
English Alphabet, xv, 176
English Channel, first aeroplane flight, i, 43;
historical importance, xiv, 279-80, xv, 137;
impassable to quadrupeds, xiv, 273;
tidal power system, v, 175-6;
tides of, xiv, 294
English Language, changes in, xv, 156-7;
double meanings of words, 158-9;
foreign words in, 161;
imitative words in, 153-4;
origin of various words, 157, 161;
relationships, 160, 162;
spelling and pronunciation, 176-8
English People, characteristics, xiii, 172;
insularity of, xiv, 280
English Sparrow, increase in U. S., xv, 21
Entada Scandens, xiii, 347-8
Enterokinase, x, 326
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