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Paper, 'On the thermo-electricity of ferruginous metals, and on the thermal effects of stretching solid bodies' by J P [James Prescott] Joule

Reference number: AP/39/9

Date: 28 January 1857

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Joule briefly describes a series of experiments made with a thermo-multiplier placed in the vacuum of an air-pump.

Subject: Physics / Electricity / Thermodynamics

Received 29 January 1857. Read 29 January 1857.

Written by Joule in Oak Field, Moss Side, Manchester [England].

This paper was published in full in volume 8 of the Proceedings of the Royal Society as 'On the thermo-electricity of ferruginous metals, and on the thermal effects of stretching solid bodies'.

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AP/39/9
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28 January 1857
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2 pages
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James Prescott Joule

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James Prescott Joule, Paper, 'On the thermo-electricity of ferruginous metals, and on the thermal effects of stretching solid bodies' by J P [James Prescott] Joule, 28 January 1857, AP/39/9, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/ap_39_9/paper-on-the-thermo-electricity-of-ferruginous-metals-and-on-the-thermal-effects-of-stretching-solid-bodies-by-j-p-james-prescott-joule, accessed on 12 July 2025

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