 | John Timbs - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1857 - 444 pages
...comparatively light, is positively heavy, having a weight of its own. A square inch of it, carried up from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is no less than 15 Ibs. in weight. It is this weight of the atmosphere, 15 Ibs. on every square inch,... | |
 | Samuel Brown - Atomic theory - 1858 - 380 pages
...a weight of its own. The experiments of these men showed that a square-inch column of it, extending from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is no less than 15 Ibs. in weight. It is this weight of the atmosphere, 15 Ibs. on every square inch,... | |
 | Samuel Brown - Atomic theory - 1858 - 382 pages
...a weight of its own. The experiments of these men showed that a square-inch column of it, extending from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is no less than 15 Ibs. in weight. It is this weight of the atmosphere, 15 Ibs. on every square inch,... | |
 | John Timbs - Inventions - 1860 - 478 pages
...heavy, having a weight of its own. The above experiments showed that a square inch of it, carried up from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is no less than fifteen pounds in weight. It is this weight of the atmosphere, fifteen pounds on every... | |
 | William Cooper - Yacht building - 1873 - 520 pages
...this column of water within the tube will exactly equal the excess of the weight of a corresponding column of air, reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, over the pressure of whatever amount of air is left in the tube ; it follows, therefore, that could... | |
 | Victoria and Albert museum - 1876 - 550 pages
...unquestionably, by experiment, air has weight. Now what weight has air ? The weight of a square inch of air reaching from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere is about fifteen pounds, or thirty-three feet of water on a square inch weighs fifteen pounds, or a... | |
 | Isaac Sharpless, George Morris Philips - Physics - 1883 - 376 pages
...column of mercury 30 inches high weighs the same as a column of air of the same thickness, extending from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. 1 When'proper precautions have been taken to have the mercury pure and to remove all bubbles of air... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1869 - 640 pages
...Proceedings of this Society, " the latitudinal line of minimum barometer represents that space where the air, from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere, is warmest on any latitude, and consequently lightest." The charts of 13th and Hth March 1859 were... | |
 | Science - 1987 - 714 pages
...variable to look for, in his opinion, is precipitable water, the total amount of water vapor in a column from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. The signal-to-noise ratio of this quantity, as predicted by the general circulation models for a greenhouse-gas-induced... | |
 | Physics - 1839 - 1198 pages
...d.¿8=—=-¿.— .. (2 4/i' 2 —y 2 ‘I d ,i but in this formula 8 0 must be conceived to increase from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere. In applying the last formula it is necessary to have a value ofy. Draw 0 L to touch the curve at 0,... | |
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This will cause the air at the equator to stand more than seven miles higher from the surface of the earth to the top of the atmosphere than at the north pole. 
