Bull, Marcus:

$450 · Offered by William Reese Company

EXPERIMENTS TO DETERMINE THE COMPARATIVE VALUE OF THE PRINCIPAL VARIETIES OF FUEL USED IN THE UNITED STATES, AND ALSO IN EUROPE. AND ON THE ORDINARY APPARATUS USED FOR THEIR ... Bull's paper was read before the American Philosophical Society in April 1826. An early investigation into energy sources, comparing the efficiency of wood and coal as heat sources. Bull provides quite detailed information on the energy to be derived from several types of wood and coal, including coal from Worcester, Rhode Island, the Schuylkill River, and the Susquehanna. The frontispiece illustration shows the apparatus used by Bull in his experiments.

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