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" The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it ; and I have little doubt that, by interposing an electromagnetic engine in the circuit of a battery, a diminution... "
The Scientific Papers of James Prescott Joule - Page 120
by James Prescott Joule - 1884 - 657 pages
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and ..., Volume 8

1888 - 966 pages
...other. " 5th. The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it ;...consequence, and this in proportion to the mechanical powers obtained."11 The above statement of Joule's contains, in a form which seems to us neither ambiguous...
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and ..., Volume 8

Thomas Spencer Baynes, William Robertson Smith - 1890 - 938 pages
...other. " 5th. The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it ;...consequence, and this in proportion to the mechanical powers obtained."11 The above statement of Joule's contains, in a form which seems to us neither ambiguous...
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Memoir of James Prescott Joule

Osborne Reynolds - 1892 - 236 pages
...says : — " The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it, and I have but little doubt that by interposing an electro-magnetic engine in the circuit of a battery a diminution...
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Electricity, Electrometer Magnetism, and Electrolysis

George Chrystal, Napier Shaw - 1894 - 224 pages
...other. " 5th. The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it ;...consequence, and this in proportion to the mechanical powers obtained."11 The above statement of Joule's contain -. in a form which seems to us neither ambiguous...
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The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia ..., Volume 8

1907 - 798 pages
...other. " 5th. The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it ;...consequence, and this in proportion to the mechanical powers obtained." 10 The above statement of Joule's contains, in a form which seems to us neither ambiguous...
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Britain's Heritage of Science

Sir Arthur Schuster, Sir Arthur Everett Shipley - 1917 - 614 pages
...follows : — " The magnetic electrical machine enables us to convert mechanical power into heat by means of the electric currents which are induced by it....this in proportion to the mechanical power obtained." It seems that Joule was not then aware of the previous experiments by Count Rumford, in which heat...
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Science and Scientists in the Nineteenth Century

Robert Henry Murray - 1925 - 492 pages
...into heat by * Phil. Trans, 1821 ; cf. HLF von Helmholtz, Ueber die Erhaltung der Kraft, I. p. 33aid of the electric currents which are induced by it, and I have little doubt that by interposing an electric magnetic engine in the circuit of a battery a diminution of the heat evolved per equivalent...
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The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Energy Physics in Victorian Britain

Crosbie Smith - 1998 - 424 pages
...magnetic electrical machine [generator] enables us to convert mechanical power into heat, by means of the electric currents which are induced by it....consequence, and this in proportion to the mechanical power obtained.41 At this stage, Joule was clearly invoking his own authority and prestige as an electrical...
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The Philosophy of Physics

Roberto Torretti - 1999 - 532 pages
...interposing an electro-magnetic engine [ie, an electric motor] in the circuit of a battery a diminution of heat evolved per equivalent of chemical change would...this in proportion to the mechanical power obtained" (Joule 1843, in Joule 1884, p. 120). This was hard to prove, for heat loss to the environment can easily...
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