 On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat by James Prescott Joule

By James Prescott Joule.

Published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Volume 140.

Publisher: The Royal Society.

Online text: www2.lawrence.edu/fast/STONEKIM/COURSES/Joule_1850.pdf

Cited passages: pp. 64–66 and Plate VII: thermometer calibration, water apparatus and operating sequence; pp. 66, 69–70 and 82: matched controls, apparatus water-equivalent capacity, mechanical corrections and residual losses.