 At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the common, a large pond, which I observed one day to be very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropped a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon...  Physics at Surfaces - Page 1by Andrew Zangwill - 1988 - 454 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | History - 1778 - 626 pages
...pond, which 1 observed to be oui; day very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropt a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon- the surface; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; lor I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 610 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced : for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Economics - 1835 - 340 pages
...pond, which I observed one day to he very rongh with the wind, I fetehed ont a ernet of oil. and dropt a little of it on the water. I saw it spread itself with snrprising swiftness npon the snrface: bnt the effect of smoothing the waves was not prodnced; for... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks - Statesmen - 1838 - 632 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1840 - 640 pages
...revolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Chambers's journal - 1861 - 432 pages
...The first thing he did was to make an experiment in a pond on Clapham Common. He dropped a little oil on the water. 'I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface, but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced, for I had applied it first upon the leeward-side... | |
 | Jeremiah Chaplin - Biography & Autobiography - 1876 - 416 pages
...observed one day to be very rough with the wind, I fetched out a cruet of oil, and dropped a little on the water. I saw it spread itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced, for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - Inventors - 1893 - 332 pages
...resolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our books of experimental philosophy. " At length being at Clapham where there is. on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for 1 had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Philip Gengembre Hubert - 1895 - 330 pages
...resolved in my mind, and wondered to find no mention of them in our. books of experimental philosophy. " At length being at Clapham where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - Literary Criticism - 1899 - 554 pages
...the learned are apt to slight too much the knowledge of the vulgar," not to bear it in memory, and " At length being at Clapham, where there is, on the...itself with surprising swiftness upon the surface ; but the effect of smoothing the waves was not produced ; for I had applied it first on the leeward... | |
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