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Joule's 1840 Manuscript on the Production of Heat by Voltaic Electricity (2020)

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Electrical engineering Electricity; magnetism Heating; ventilation 19th century Joule, James Prescott Royal Society of London

In 1840, James Prescott Joule submitted to the Royal Society a paper describing experimental research on the heat produced by electric currents in metallic conductors, and inferring that the effect was proportional to the resistance of the conductors and to the square of the intensity of the current. Only an abstract of this paper was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, although a full paper with a similar title was printed in the Philosophical Magazine in 1841. Several authors have assumed that the content of the 1841 publication was the same as the rejected 1840 paper; however, the unpublished manuscript has been found within the archives of the Royal Society and is published here for the first time, along with a detailed analysis and comparison with the 1841 paper. The unpublished version is much shorter, and is different in certain respects from the published article. A detailed comparison throws light on several shortcomings of the unpublished version. The present work also studies the assessment of Joule's paper by the Royal Society, and elucidates the roles of Peter Roget and Samuel Christie in this connection.

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Authors & Contributors
Gooday, Graeme J. N.
Adams, Sean Patrick
Aldrich, Mark
Arapostathis, Stathis
Cahan, David L.
Cardwell, D. S. L.
Journals
Foundations of Science
Notes and Records: The Royal Society Journal of the History of Science
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Agricultural History
British Journal for the History of Science
Environment and History
Publishers
Brown University
Columbia University Press
Institution of Engineering and Technology
Johns Hopkins University Press
University of California Press
Concepts
Physics
Electricity; magnetism
Electrical engineering
Heating; ventilation
Thermodynamics
Public health
People
Joule, James Prescott
Mayer, Julius Robert von
Heaviside, Oliver
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
Varley, Cromwell Fleetwood
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Great Britain
China
Germany
Russia
United States
Palestine
Institutions
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
École Centrale de Paris
Escuela de Ingenieros de Barcelona
Royal Society (Great Britain). European Science Exchange Programme
Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona
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