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watch a video with narration or listen to a story from your teacher about Augustin Mouchot and his work on the development of the solar ovens and the solar steam engines. Please write down the main points
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Rumford’s work with re- spect to energy conservation, the importance of Lavoisier's work lies not in the fact that his system can be seen as the accepted theory – and actually Rumford’s work did not change [...] became familiar with the work of Victor Regnault and Sadi Carnot. The latter had demon- strated that the work of a steam engine is depend- ing on the temperature difference, thus the work was not equivalent [...] responsi- ble for establishing his work, but also William Thomson, who later became Lord Kelvin. Yet, Joule himself did not start from scratch and par- ticularly referred to the work of Benjamin Thomp- son, Count
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make sure that the work was going efficient and that the quality of the weapons was as expected. When Thompson stood in the workshop, he immediately felt anger raise as most of the work- men stood around [...] for a tool to be prepared were not his idea of efficiency. Thus, he demanded that the workers should work with a blunt drill whilst the other one was still sharpened. Yet, they refused by arguing that the [...] Thomp-son felt that this issue deserves some more of his attention, so he mumbled to the workers ‘Work on, and be more efficient’ and went back to his carriage to go home, thinking about this problem.
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with a salaried position at the level of Lieutenant Colonel in the British army, which involved no work. He used his leisure time to pursue scientific experiments for the military. Over the next few years [...] cost-effective and nutritious soup to feed the mili- tary and the workers in the clothing-production work- house. Using low-cost ingredients, such as potatoes and barley, he began a long series of tests with [...] evident in every recipe, re- cording the cooking time, ingredient preparation, and utensils used. His work was some of the first in the sci- ence of nutrition, and Rumford Soup became famous throughout Europe
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his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg [...] planning to write his own textbook, but he never did that. Although, he had never published any bigger work in natural history with his name, he was considered as one of the most outstanding contemporary scholars
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] electrical charges. However, most researchers in the field of electricity remained ignorant of Wilcke’s work; and the electrophorus was particularly made known by the Italian Alessandro Volta (who is best known [...] other electrical phenomena) be explained with both conceptual ideas. However, another researcher worked with the electrophorus, and he seemingly made an observation that could be used as evidence for the
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have invented the device. However, it is unclear whether he had been familiar with Wilcke’s work or whether his work serves as an example of an independent development. The operations with the electrophorus [...] his father died. In 1752, Georg was enrolled in the secondary school in Damstadt. Thanks to his hard work and creativity, he gained few prizes. Pastor’s family did not suffer from poverty, but they did not [...] outstanding teacher of young Georg was the physics and maths lecturer, Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, who worked also in the astronomical observatory in the university. The time of studies was not easy for Lichtenberg
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t of the atomic theory because the original works of Leucippus and Democritus were lost and are known only through Aristotle’s criticism. Aristotle’s works were kept and expanded in the Is- lamic culture [...] cide in September of 1906. The atom gets a substructure Even before Einstein’s and Smoluchowski’s work helped to establish a consensus about the accuracy of the atomic description of matter, some researchers [...] actually contradicted the initial understanding of the atom as being indivisi- ble. In fact, Faraday’s work on electrolysis from the 1830s could have raised questions about the fundamen- tal and indivisible
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child of twelve born to James and Martha Rutherford. His father worked making wheels for carts, and as an engineer. Later, his father worked as a flax-miller. In contrast, his mother was an English teacher [...] was very important to his par- ents. James Rutherford’s work was also very im- portant to the development of his son’s personality. His father’s work required the family to move quite often. In 1876, James [...] had a reputation as being an outstanding researcher and innovator working at the forefront of electrical technology. He chose to work with Professor Jo- seph John Thomson at Cambridge University’s Cavendish