TY - JOUR T1 - On the Expediency of Assigning Specific Names to All Such Functions of Simple Elements as Represent Definite Physical Properties; with the Suggestion of a New Term in Mechanics; Illustrated by an Investigation of the Machine Moved by Recoil, and Also by Some Observations on the Steam Engine. JF - Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London (1800-1843) VL - 2 SP - 299 EP - 300 PY - 1815/01/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspl.1815.0310 M3 - doi:10.1098/rspl.1815.0310 AU - Gilbert, D. ER -