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extensive change in the history of science. Acknowledgement: This paper benefitted from a visit in the Otto-von- Guericke Museum in Magdeburg in February 2013. References Attali, Jacques (2007): Blaise

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• Guericke and vacuum

extensive change in the history of science. Acknowledgement: This paper benefitted from a visit in the Otto-von- Guericke Museum in Magdeburg in February 2013. References Attali, Jacques (2007): Blaise

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later the Lichtenberg figures. In February, 1778 he presented the paper on this topic during the session of the Göttingen Society of Science, but he was not able to explain fully the reason of this

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• Lichtenberg and the electrophorus

later the Lichtenberg figures. In February, 1778 he presented the paper on this topic during the session of the Göttingen Society of Science, but he was not able to explain fully the reason of this

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went down very slowly, actu- ally they were slower than a piece of paper was falling. Winding them up again however was hard work, way too tough for James who had a weak health since his childhood days,

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• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

appeared in a local Manchester newspaper. Finally he published a paper in the Proceedings of the Royal Society describing the first of the epon- ymous laws which predicts the heat generated by a conductor [...] were forgiven, and by the late 1840’s he was regularly presenting papers to the British Associa- tion and the Royal Society. 2 Biography: James Prescott Joule Storytelling Teaching Model: wiki.science-stories.org

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a monumental work in his lifetime, publishing 661 scientific papers and achieving 75 patents. He had a key role in the successful laying of the first transatlantic communications cable, he established [...] himself to excel above his classmates, winning a medal for his paper, “An Essay on the Figure of the Earth” and began to publish papers at the age of fifteen. However, despite being academically inclined [...] Thomson’s came about after listening to James Prescott Joule read a paper during a meeting of the British Association in 1847. In this paper, Joule discussed the experiments he had performed in his brewery

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is achieved, by the progress of science. 6. Locate, based on the papers were published by Joule, the prevailing scientific views about the heat. 7. Describe how the scientific views are progressed. About

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• Scientific Partnership; James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.
• The hard work of experimenting James Prescott Joule, William Thomson, and the mechanical equivalent of heat.

University, interpreted the experimental results in a famous paper, “The scattering of alpha and beta particles by matter and the structure of the atom.” In this paper Rutherford described and [...] motion. In fact, Einstein’s article was one of the three famous papers in his annus mirabilis, the other two concerning the photoelectric effect and the special theory of relativity. Both researchers [...] Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Containing Papers of a Mathematical and Physical Character, 82(557), 495–500. Görs, B. (1999). Chemischer Atomismus: Anwendung, Ver- änderung,

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• Maria Skłodowska-Curie: discoverer of two radioactive elements

in Lavoisier's sense to the principle of energy conservation. The paper Joule presented in 1843 was not paid much attention to in the scientific world. In the following years Joule presented several papers [...] "On the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat". In this paper Joule described in full detail his experiments with the famous paddle-wheel. This paper did not only include the data Joule got from [...] scientific community. The other important paper Joule presented at the annual Meeting of the British Society. As his biographer D. Cardwell pointed out: "Joule be- lieved his paper

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