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ab- sorber? That way I could make the device smaller.” Soon, Augustin had completed the construc- tion of his first solar water heater, which was ca- pable of holding three litres of water. Lucky for him [...] to the well-being and progress of the entire nation. Harnessing the sun’s energy became a fascina- tion and all-consuming preoccupation for Au- gustin. “We need to heat so many things in every- day life—water [...] the public domain. Political support would be ad- vantageous at this strategic moment. His connec- tion with Jean-Baptiste Verchère de Reffye, Ord- nance Officer of the Imperial Workshop at Meu- don, who
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sunbeams! It struck observers as bizarre – even magical.” Mouhout won a first place medal at this exhibi- tion and could continue his work on the devel- opments. In 1869 he poured himself into writing the first [...] cop- ies per hour of his newspaper “Soleil-Journal”. However, The political and economical situa- tions in France have changed. The economy in France was improving. The Cobden-Chevalier Treaty** between [...] portant as before. He hasn’t got more financial support. His activity concerned with the investiga- tions and implementations of solar energy in prac- tice stopped. Mouchot went back to the teaching profession
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ments on heat radiation. This was combined with a hollow mirror that was used to focus solar radia- tion on the cylinder. Already in 1861, Mouchot was able to produce steam with his device. In the following
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est intensity beyond the red part of the spectrum. 1 These ‘new rays’ became an issue of investiga- tion for several researchers, most namely John Leslie who published in 1804 a monograph deal- ing with [...] a work Rumford was through his own work in the field of photometry familiar with. Lambert’s rela- tion s appeared to be plausible for radiant heat as well – on the one hand due to its similarity with light [...] created. He had embodied the idea of conservation in a way that made it impossible to accept any excep- tions of this principle. But there seemed to be several exceptions as, for example, the generation of heat
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całe wieki dał początek różnym ciekawym urządze- niom.” -Augustyn Bernard Mouchot, podczas Exhibi- tion Universelle (Wystawa Uniwersalna) w Pary- żu, we Francji (1878 rok). Augustyn Mouchot przewidział
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heat. London, Printed for J. Mawman. Mouchot, Augustin (1869), La chaleur solaire et ses applica- tions industrielles. Paris. Olson RG (1970) Count Rumford, Sir John Leslie, and the Study of the Nature
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positivistic sense, nor in the sense of an applicable theoretical descrip- tion) but just a heuristic tool to describe chemical reac- tions, without contributing to the actual understanding of matter (Görs 1999) [...] took place in Cambridge. In 1895, he left New Zealand. He was only 23 years old, but had a reputa- tion as being an outstanding researcher and innova- tor working at the forefront of electrical technology [...] that science’” (1993, 35). Yet, it was not only the methodological step or conceptual modifica- tions that made Lavoisier’s chemistry distinct from the previous understanding. Two key aspects in his under-
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more and more fascinated by the animals and tried to understand them better through her observa- tions. At the same time she tried to draw a real- ly good picture of a silkworm, which wasn’t exactly easy