Article ID: CBB000028872

Reworking the mechanical value of heat: Instruments of precision and gestures of accuracy in early Victorian England (1995)

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Description “In this paper I address the questions of whether, and how, reworking historical experiments can contribute to the understanding of experimental practice in history. I concentrate on a particular experiment on the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat performed by James Prescott Joule from Manchester.”


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Authors & Contributors
Sibum, H. Otto
Steffens, Henry John
Spargo, P. E.
Smith, Crosbie W.
Sichau, C.
Sebastiani, Fabio
Concepts
Physics
Thermodynamics
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
International System of Units (SI)
Gas laws
Properties of matter
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
Places
England
British Isles
Germany
Institutions
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
Royal Society of London
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