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... ammonia under very considerable pressures , but within the control of known means of retention . The high pressure gas thus obtained being used with the greatest practicable measure of expansion on a working piston generates power ...
... ammonia under very considerable pressures , but within the control of known means of retention . The high pressure gas thus obtained being used with the greatest practicable measure of expansion on a working piston generates power ...
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... ammonia in his heat engine depended on the fact that ammonia vaporises into gas at a low temperature . At o ̊C the gas exerts a pressure equal to ... AMMONIA VAPOUR AMMONIA VAPOUR BOILER PUMP BOILER PUMP VALVES RETURN 154 Perpetual Motion.
... ammonia in his heat engine depended on the fact that ammonia vaporises into gas at a low temperature . At o ̊C the gas exerts a pressure equal to ... AMMONIA VAPOUR AMMONIA VAPOUR BOILER PUMP BOILER PUMP VALVES RETURN 154 Perpetual Motion.
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The History of an Obsession Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume. AMMONIA VAPOUR AMMONIA VAPOUR BOILER PUMP BOILER PUMP VALVES RETURN VALVES RETURN Fig . 82. The cycle of the Gamgee ammonia engine of the 1880s in which gas pressure was expected to ...
The History of an Obsession Arthur W. J. G. Ord-Hume. AMMONIA VAPOUR AMMONIA VAPOUR BOILER PUMP BOILER PUMP VALVES RETURN VALVES RETURN Fig . 82. The cycle of the Gamgee ammonia engine of the 1880s in which gas pressure was expected to ...
Contents
Introduction | 15 |
What is Perpetual Motion? | 19 |
Elementary Physics and Perpetual Motion | 27 |
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