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
Spargo, P. E.
Smith, Crosbie W.
Journals
Foundations of Science
Vistas in Astronomy
Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa
Science and Education
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Concepts
Physics
Thermodynamics
Conservation of energy (physical concept)
Electricity; magnetism
Gas laws
Properties of matter
People
Joule, James Prescott
Faraday, Michael
Radice, Lucio Lombardo
Mayer, Julius Robert von
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord
Spencer, Herbert
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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