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Pneumatics

noun

The branch of mechanics that deals with the mechanical properties of gases.

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Etymology of 'Pneumatics'

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"Pneumatics" Quotes from Famous Books

... life. Education was considered by their founders as merely a step to making money. Science became a trade—a mere handmaid to art. Mammon was all in all. Their instruction was entirely utilitarian. Mechanics and Medicine, Hydraulics and Chemistry, Pneumatics and Hydrostatics, Anatomy and Physiology, constituted the grand staples of their education. What they taught was adapted only for professional students. One would suppose, from examining their course of study, that all men were to be either doctors or surgeons, apothecaries or druggists, ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various

... educated by his mother, a godly woman, and while very young he learnt by heart the Te Deum, the Litany, and much of the prayers of the Church of England. He worked for his father, and an uncle who was a millwright, but found time to study hydrostatics, pneumatics, natural philosophy, as well as Hebrew, Greek and Latin. His mother's influence had given him a serious bent of mind, and he early acquired strong religious convictions. His biographer says of him "He tells, in child-like simplicity, how, when only four or five ...

— A History of Horncastle - from the earliest period to the present time • James Conway Walter

Words linked to "Pneumatics" : mechanics