For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape transparently enough to discern the connection between the heat generated and the motion produced. The great puzzle of the vital force was also immediately solved for the physiologist in that it became evident that it is more than a mere poetic comparison when one conceives of the coal as the food of the locomotive and the combustion as the basis for its life.
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary c… - Carl Ludwig
Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary c…
- Carl Ludwig
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape tr… - Carl Ludwig
For the first time there was constructed with this machine [locomotive engine] a self-acting mechanism in which the interplay of forces took shape tr…
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