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IV.—On the Convection of Heat by Air Currents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 July 2012

A. Crichton Mitchell
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1. The present paper deals with a, series of experiments made in the Physical Laboratory, Edinburgh University, from January to October 1899, with the object of determining the convective loss of heat from a cooling body owing to the action of currents of air.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 40 , Issue 1 , 1905 , pp. 39 - 47
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1905

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page 39 note * “Scala graduum caloris et frigoris,” Phil. Trans., April 1701, vol. xxii. p. 824. Also in Newton's Works, Horsley's edition, 1782, vol. iv.

page 39 note † Ann. de Ch. et de Physique, 1817, vi. pp. 259–303.

page 40 note * Theorie Analytique de la Chaleur, ch. i. sect. ii.

page 40 note † Leslie, , An Experimental Enquiry into the Nature and Propagation of Heat, London, 1804, p. 279Google Scholar.

page 40 note ‡ See Porter, , Phil. Mag., xxxix. 268–279Google Scholar.

page 41 note * It is very desirable that some coating be found, similar to that of soot or lampblack, which will note readily rub off, or be affected by steam or exposure to a high temperature.

page 43 note * Proc. Roy. Soc., xxxii. 465.

page 46 note * The experiments described in this paper were conducted in a underground cellar, in which the diurnal variation of temperature is scarcely noticeable.