Heating and Ventilating Buildings: An Elementary Treatise (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Heating and Ventilating Buildings: An Elementary Treatise

Heat is recognized by a bodily sensation, that of feeling, by means of which we are able to determine roughly by com parison that one body is warmer or colder than another. From a scientific standpoint heat is a peculiar form of energy, similar in many respects to electricity or light, and is capable, under favorable conditions, of being reduced into either of the above or into mechanical work. We shall have little to do with the theoretical discussion of its nature, but, as it is well to have a distinct understanding of its various forms and equivalents, we will consider briefly some Of its important properties.

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