"Mr Joule... fully established the relations of equivalence among the energies of chemical affinity, of heat, of combination or combustion, of electrical currents in the galvanic battery, of electrical currents in magnetoelectric machines, of engines worked by galvanism, and of all the varied and interchangeable manifestations of calorific action and mechanical force which accompany them. These researches, with the theory of animal heat and motion in relation to the heat of combustion of the food, and the theory of the phenomena presented by shooting stars, due to the same penetrating investigator, have afforded to the author of the present communication the chief groundwork for his speculations."
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William Thomson, Mathematical and Physical Papers, Vol.2 (1884) "On Mechanical Antecedents of Motion, Heat and Light" (original publications 1854, 1855) dnnddjuiwe
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James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist and brewer. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work.
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