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Joule, James Prescott

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A celebrated physicist, born at Salford; was a pupil of Dalton's, and devoted his time to physical and chemical research; made discoveries in connection with the production of heat by voltaic electricity, demonstrated the equivalence of heat and energy, and established on experimental grounds the doctrine of the conservation of energy (1818-1889).

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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Joule, James Prescott'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​j/joule-james-prescott.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
 
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