. Bulletin. Science. duce—attempted to deal quantitatively with the question of economy. He had concluded that the "theoretical consumption of a perfect caloric engine amounted to only one-fourteenth part of the theoreti- cal consumption of a Boulton and Watt condensing ; He stated he believed that this economy was not practically attainable in the caloric engine, but that he was hard at work on a steam engine he hoped would approach the ideal.''' Professor Faraday recalled that he had, 20 years before, believed heated air might be used as a motive power, but even then he had,
. Bulletin. Science. duce—attempted to deal quantitatively with the question of economy. He had concluded that the "theoretical consumption of a perfect caloric engine amounted to only one-fourteenth part of the theoreti- cal consumption of a Boulton and Watt condensing ; He stated he believed that this economy was not practically attainable in the caloric engine, but that he was hard at work on a steam engine he hoped would approach the ideal.''' Professor Faraday recalled that he had, 20 years before, believed heated air might be used as a motive power, but even then he had, "with some diffidence, ventured to express his conviction of the almost un- conquerable practical difficulties surrounding the case, and of the fallacy of the presumed advantages of the ; He still retained his ;^ The vice president of the Institution, Isambard Kingdom Brunei, who at this time was completely engrossed with the details of planning his monumental ship Great Eastern, "agreed in considering the regen- erator to be a mystification, and the difficulty of the matter arose from its plausibility. It was extremely difficult to disprove that which did not exist at ; It looked like perpetual motion to him, and he was "inclined to regard it just as he would any attempt to produce perpetual ; "^ Mr. Pole, a steam engineer, exhibiting perhaps more diplomacy than wisdom, made the observation with regard to the "so-called regenerator" that it would be found, "as in many other disputed cases, the truth lay between the ; '* The measure of the situation on both sides of the Atlantic was taken by F. A. P. Barnard, professor of chemistry and natural history at the University of Alabama. His comments appeared in Silliman's Journal of Science: ^' The confusion of thought which appears to prevail on the subject, is probably in a great degree owing to the fact, that the theory of heat, i
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