Paper, 'On the mechanical equivalent of heat' by James P [Prescott] Joule
Reference number: PT/37/3
Date: 04 June 1849
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Subject: Physics
Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the mechanical equivalent of heat'.
Written by Joule in Oak Field, near Manchester. Received by the Royal Society on 6 June 1849. Read 21 June 1849.
Abstract published in Abstracts of the Papers Printed in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London [later Proceedings of the Royal Society of London], Volume 5, 1851.
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- PT/37/3
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- 04 June 1849
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- 36 pages
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- Manuscript
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