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" I have described cannot be made to decrease quite as fast as the heat increases ; and therefore its rate of variation can only be represented by a curve, and... "
Notes on the Management of Chronometers and the Measurement of Meridian ... - Page 18
by Sir Charles Frederick Alexander Shadwell - 1861 - 228 pages
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Clock and Watch Work: From the Eighth Edition of the Encyclopaedia Brittanica

Edmund Beckett (1st baron Grimthorpe.), Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe - Clocks and watches - 1855 - 200 pages
...variation of the force of the spring proceeds uniformly in proportion to the temperature, and therefore may be represented by a straight line inclined at some angle to another straight line divided into degrees of temperature. But the inertia of a balance of the common construction cannot...
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks and Watches and Bells

Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe - Bells - 1874 - 458 pages
...Nautical Magazine in 1833; and he gave the following illustration of it: The diminution of the force of the spring proceeds uniformly in proportion to the...temperature. But the inertia of a compound balance such as I have described cannot be made to decrease quite as fast as the heat increases ; and therefore...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 143

English literature - 1877 - 630 pages
...force in a spring proceeds uniformly in proportion to the increase of heat, and may be graphically represented by a straight line inclined, at some angle, to another straight line, which is divided to represent degrees of temperature. But the inertia of a compound balance cannot be made to decrease...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volumes 143-144

1877 - 626 pages
...force in a spring proceeds uniformly in proportion to the increase of heat, and may be graphically represented by a straight line inclined, at some angle, to another straight line, which is divided to represent degrees of temperature. But the inertia of a compound balance cannot be made to decrease...
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A Rudimentary Treatise on Clocks, Watches & Bells for Public Purposes

Edmund Beckett Baron Grimthorpe - Bells - 1903 - 448 pages
...Nautical Magazine in 1833; and he gave the following illustration of it: The diminution of the force of the spring proceeds uniformly in proportion to the...temperature. But the inertia of a compound balance such as I have described cannot be made to decrease quite as fast as the heat increases ; and therefore...
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