James Joule Biography: The Beer Brewer Who Changed The World

Joule created the equation for the heat from a current carrying wire, found the mechanical equivalent of heat and had the units of energy named after him. Here is his story.

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Some References:

Reynolds, O Memoir of James Prescott Joule (1892) p. 25-6
Cardwell, D James Joule (1989) p. 30
Sturgeon, W “Prospectus” The Annals of Electricity, vol. 1 (1836) p. ii
Sturgeon, W “Description of an Electro-magnetic Engine” The Annals of Electricity, vol. 1 (October, 1836) p. 78
Joule, J “Description of an electro-magnetic engine“ (Jan, 1838) Annals of Electricity, vol. 2 p. 122
Joule, J “Investigations in Magnetism and Electro-magnetism” (May 1839) Annals of Electricity, vol. 4 p. 131, 135
Joule, J “On the Heat Evolved by Metallic Conductors of Electricity” (Aug 1841) The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule Vol. 1 (1884) p. 61, 65
Joule, J “On the Calorific Effects of Magneto-Electricity” (Aug 1843) The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule Vol. 1 (1884) p. 157
William Thomson to J.T. Bottomley in 1882 found in Reynolds, O Memoir of James Prescott Joule (1892) p. 108
Thomson, W “On an Absolute Thermometric Scale…” (June 5, 1848) Proceedings – Cambridge Philosophical Society vol. 1 & 2 p. 68
Clausius, R “On the Moving Force of Heat..” (Translated in English July, 1851) The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine Vol. 2 (1851) p. 2 & 4
Clausius, R “First Memoir” (1850) The Mechanical Theory of Heat (1867) p. 17
“Report of the Committee” Report of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1867) p. 474
Siemens, C Report of the Fifty-Second Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)