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
Martins, Roberto de Andrade
Silva, A. P. B.
Lusito, Fabio
Steffens, Henry John
Spargo, P. E.
Journals
Foundations of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Substantia: An International Journal of the History of Chemistry
Vistas in Astronomy
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Publishers
Science History
Concepts
Physics
Thermodynamics
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
Electricity; magnetism
Experiments and experimentation
International System of Units (SI)
People
Joule, James Prescott
Mayer, Julius Robert von
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Faraday, Michael
Radice, Lucio Lombardo
Watt, James
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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