The Animal: As a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Animal: As a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics

We see that in the beginning there entered upon an existence of indefinite duration a great universe of matter endowed with its characterizing attributes - the forces. These forces, acting upon a definite quantity of matter with definite intensity, give origin to a fixed amount of actual energy, and become capa ble of producing another fixed quantity of what is now potential energy. Energy thus brought into exist ence remains constant in total amount as the quantity of created matter remains constant.

The action of these forces upon this matter has given rise to every phenomenon which has come, or which can come, within the range of scientific inquiry.

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Excerpt from The Animal: As a Machine and a Prime Motor, and the Laws of Energetics

I. Energy and its Transformations are the source and the method of all useful work, as of all natural phenomena involving motions of masses or of molecules of whatever kind. All "prime movers" are machines by means of which man diverts energy from natural channels and compels it to do his own work. The water-wheels and windmills simply transfer the energy of the moving fluid to the machinery of the transmission through which it performs useful work; the heat-engines and electric machinery transfer energy, and at the same time convert it from the thermal or the electrical to the dynamic form for application, and thermodynamic or electro-dynamic apparatus thus have two distinct functions.

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