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Paper, 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion' by J P [James Prescott] Joule and Professor W [William] Thomson

Reference number: PT/49/8

Date: 1854

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions as 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion - Part II'.

Received and read by the Royal Society on 15 June 1854.

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 7, 1856.

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PT/49/8
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1854
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James Prescott Joule

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William Thomson

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James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, Paper, 'On the thermal effects of fluids in motion' by J P [James Prescott] Joule and Professor W [William] Thomson, 1854, PT/49/8, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/pt_49_8/paper-on-the-thermal-effects-of-fluids-in-motion-by-j-p-james-prescott-joule-and-professor-w-william-thomson, accessed on 11 November 2025

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