Hall of the institute, Nov. 19th, 1879

✍ Scribed by Isaac Norris

• Book ID: 103088516
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1879
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 244 KB
• Volume: 108
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(79)90365-x

✦ Synopsis

1)c.f. Thurston has in this book (.ollected veritable'eXl)(',rimemal data from :dl th(! a(e('el)h:~] au(h(wities, :rod h'ts supplemented his infi)rmation t)v very t]mt'.ttgh ('Xl)(!rimcntal result;~ with somewlmt noye] al)l)ar'~lus at tit, St(~v(ms Institute of Technology at ]T()hoken. The questi,m of the nalur(~ (,f fi'ietiou, its dls~inctive character when (livested from v(.n(lltl-us of (.~mta(',t, or associated with them; the (tuesti.n of the ,.nthmltv .t'film, ,'rod the resistaimc to moleoutar mobility of various Ihluid , or semi-fluid sul)stanees under varying conditions ()f temperature; and the (lU~stiou of reslstanee to rot:ttlon of particles of" pulverulent or abraded substan('es, COml)ressed 1)etwcen solid 1)odics, are those of fl'i(.tional vcsistan('e in the ahstme£. And the opening for e.nsidering these questions broadly, without limited application, is lU'esente(I with some fiu'ee by Prof. Thurston. From this point of vlew the l)ook be(~()nms an eminently valuable addition to te(,,hni(al knowledge. B~