An Inquiry concerning the Source of the Heat which is excited by Friction in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London for the year MDCCXCVIII [1798], Part I, Volume 88, 1798, pp. 80-102
London: Royal Society, 1798. 1st Edition. TRUE FIRST EDITION OF THOMPSON’S SEMINAL CANNON-BORING EXPERIMENTS PROVING THAT HEAT IS A FORM OF ENERGY. This paper marks the beginning of investigations of the mechanical equivalent of heat and was the first step to establishing the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. Here “Thompson..... More