Author: John SmeatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills, and Other Machines, Depending on a Circular Motion
Author: John SmeatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Growth
Author: Vaclav SmilPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262539683
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 665
Book Description
A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit aim of our individual and collective striving. It governs the lives of microorganisms and galaxies; it shapes the capabilities of our extraordinarily large brains and the fortunes of our economies. Growth is manifested in annual increments of continental crust, a rising gross domestic product, a child's growth chart, the spread of cancerous cells. In this magisterial book, Vaclav Smil offers systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the trajectories of empires and civilizations. Smil takes readers from bacterial invasions through animal metabolisms to megacities and the global economy. He begins with organisms whose mature sizes range from microscopic to enormous, looking at disease-causing microbes, the cultivation of staple crops, and human growth from infancy to adulthood. He examines the growth of energy conversions and man-made objects that enable economic activities—developments that have been essential to civilization. Finally, he looks at growth in complex systems, beginning with the growth of human populations and proceeding to the growth of cities. He considers the challenges of tracing the growth of empires and civilizations, explaining that we can chart the growth of organisms across individual and evolutionary time, but that the progress of societies and economies, not so linear, encompasses both decline and renewal. The trajectory of modern civilization, driven by competing imperatives of material growth and biospheric limits, Smil tells us, remains uncertain.
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion
Author: John SmeatonPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780341767121
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of science, art, literature, and practical mechanics, by the orig. ed. of the Encyclopaedia metropolitana [T. Curtis].
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Author: Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion
Author: John SmeatonPublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781354789841
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Experimental Enquiry Concerning The Natural Powers of Wind and Water, To Turn Mills And Other Machines Depending On A Circular Motion And An Experimental Examination Of The Quantity And Proportion Of Mechanic Power Necessary to be Employed in Giving Different Degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies From A State Of Rest
Author: John SmeatonBibliographic Guide to Technology
Author: New York Public Library. Research LibrariesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Universal decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Experimental Inquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Wind and Water to Turn Mills and Other Machines Depending on a Circular Motion ; and An Experimental Examination of the Quantity and Proportion of Mechanic Power Necessary to be Employed in Giving Different Degrees of Velocity to Heavy Bodies from a State of Rest ; Also, New Fundamental Experiments Upon the Collision of Bodies
Author: John SmeatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mechanical engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Natural Powers of Water and Wind to Turn Mills
Author: John SmeatonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-wheels
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
Democracy and Education
Author: John DeweyPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
. Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action. While the living thing may easily be crushed by superior force, it none the less tries to turn the energies which act upon it into means of its own further existence. If it cannot do so, it does not just split into smaller pieces (at least in the higher forms of life), but loses its identity as a living thing. As long as it endures, it struggles to use surrounding energies in its own behalf. It uses light, air, moisture, and the material of soil. To say that it uses them is to say that it turns them into means of its own conservation. As long as it is growing, the energy it expends in thus turning the environment to account is more than compensated for by the return it gets: it grows. Understanding the word "control" in this sense, it may be said that a living being is one that subjugates and controls for its own continued activity the energies that would otherwise use it up. Life is a self-renewing process through action upon the environment.