ADCOCK'S SYLLABUS OF A COURSE OF EIGHT LECTURES ON MECHANICAL PHILOSOPHY, INCLUDING NUMEROUS RULES, TABLES, AND DATA, WITH ILLUSTRATIVE REMARKS FOR PRACTICAL APPLICATION. BY HENRY ADCOCK, CIVIL ENGINEER. LEEDS: PUBLISHED BY BAINES & NEWSOME; AND SOLD ALSO BY E. THOMSON AND SON, MANCHESTER; WALES AND BAINES, 1832. то GEORGE BIRKBECK, M.D. F.G. S. PRESIDENT OF THE LONDON MECHANICS' INSTITUTION, OF THE METEOROLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL SOCIETIES, AND OF THE MEDICAL AND CHIRURGICAL SOCIETIES OF LONDON, HONORARY MEMBER OF THE LEEDS AND BRISTOL PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETIES, &c. &c. &c. THIS WORK IS, WITH SENTIMENTS OF THE HIGHEST ESTEEM, FOR HIS LITERARY ATTAINMENTS, HIS SCIENTIFIC EMINENCE, AND HIS NUMEROUS PUBLIC AND PRIVATE VIRTUES, MOST RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR. ADVERTISEMENT. HAVING been very frequently requested, by my friends and the public generally, to publish the Course of Lectures, which I am accustomed to deliver on Mechanical Philosophy; and not having, at this time, an opportunity of accomplishing it, I am induced to issue from the Press this small Book of Data. I do this the more willingly, inasmuch as I have found that some persons, not possessed of the most honourable feelings, have published, in various periodicals, some of the information which I have been accustomed to impart, almost verbatim; and that too without making the slightest acknowledgment of the source whence it had been obtained. It should be stated, however, that this Book is intended as an exposition of Data only. The hypothetical view of the nature and properties of heat, of steam, and of the gases-the detail of numerous interesting experimental investigations the requisite proportions of good engines, of the various horses' power-and other highly valuable and important particulars, will be reserved until the publication of the Lectures, in two volumes octavo. These, it is confidently hoped, will be issued from the press, in a few weeks from the present time. Sept. 22d, 1832. |