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David Livingstone
David Livingstone
A Scottish physician, Congregationalist, and pioneer Christian missionary who is one of the most ...
Jean-François Champollion
Jean-François Champollion
A French scholar, philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hie...
Victor Cousin
Victor Cousin
A French philosopher who founded "eclecticism", a briefly influential school of French philosophy...
Yuriy Kuzubov
Yuriy Kuzubov
Yuriy Kuzubov is a chess grandmaster and Ukrainian champion of 2014. He completed his final grand...
Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

Heat, work and subtle fluids: a commentary on Joule

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James Joule played the major role in establishing the conservation of energy, or the first law of thermodynamics, as a universal, all-pervasive principle of physics. He was an experimentalist par excellence and his place in the development of thermodynamics is unarguable. This article discusses Joule's life and scientific work culminating in the 1850 paper, where he presented his detailed measurements of the mechanical equivalent of heat using his famous paddle-wheel apparatus. Joule's long series of experiments in the 1840s leading to his realisation that the conservation of en...

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