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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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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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regularly met to discuss recent litera- ture, arts, and sciences. Currently, Antoine and Marie were working on experiments on gases, more particular on a part of the air. Initially, air had been considered [...] the same time, naming this new gas was of course an attempt to demonstrate the importance of the own work on these substances. It was in particular this gas which Lavoisier had been experimenting with for [...] water you are going to produce is the exact combination of the two gases?” With- out interrupting his work, Antoine said “What do you mean by the exact combination?” “How can you be sure that it is just these

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• Lavoisier and the conservation of mass

After the lesson, the students are expected to: 1. Locate the contribution of the Lavoisier’s research work concerning the combustion of substances, based on the narration and the suggested information. 2.

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person at rest and second with a person at work We found that the person at work produces more carbon dioxide than the other at rest, which means that the person at work uses more oxygen in respiration and dur- [...] circumstances that the person was subjected to. Firstly the person was at rest, and secondly he/she was at work”. Lavoisier started to refer to his inferences from the experiment. “I assumed that the purpose of

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• Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier and respiration

measured the energy converted from food into heat and mechanical work (Rubner, 1902). Several other scientists worked on a theory of nutrition and work to enhance human performance in industry and the military [...] energy for their work in factories. After von Helmholtz’s publi- cation on the conservation of the “living force,” 11 it seemed obvious working men had to convert their food into mechanical work and that these [...] person at rest and second with a person at work We found that the person at work produces more carbon dioxide than the other at rest, which means that the person at work uses more oxygen in respiration and dur-

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opment of the atomic theory as the original works of Leucippus and Democritus were lost and were actually known only through his criti- cism. Aristotle’s works were kept and expanded in the Islamic culture [...] education. However, he soon left school and started helping his father. When John was 12, he started working as a teacher in a local school. He earned his living and provided himself with a quiet, untroubled [...] the President of the Society. Over a period of 50 years, Dalton present- ed 116 of his scientific works. In addition, Dalton created his private laboratory in the building be- longing to the Manchester

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a job working as a geolo- gist in the Alsace-Lorraine. On May 18, 1768, at the age of twenty-four, he was chosen to become a member of French Academy of Science. In the following year, he worked on the [...] servation of mass and discovered that hydrogen, in combination with ox- ygen, produces water. His work was characterized by organizational skills, abundance of good ideas, universality, and modernism. [...] acquired a license to run a solicitor practice. It was likely due to his studies in Law that his works were so well written, with their meanings always easily comprehensible, clear, well-defined, and fully

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that is conserved, and thus there is a direct ratio between the mechanical work and the heat that can be produced by the work. Joule started to talk, and while he was talking he felt more and more that [...] had raised his attention to a certain aspect of a well-known principle: The conversion of mechanical work or electricity into heat. Even though this convertibility was established, what puzzled Joule was [...] was a newly appointed professor of physics in Glasgow, he had studied in Cambridge and afterwards worked with the French Victor Regnault, the leading experimentalist in the sciences of heat. Having gained

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

Winding them up again however was hard work, way too tough for James who had a weak health since his childhood days, and who was not allowed to do physical working whatsoever. Besides, he was the owner [...] his experiments to the local scientif- Story: The hard work of experimenting 1 Storytelling Teaching Model: www.science-story-telling.eu The hard work of experimenting: James Prescott Joule and the mechanical [...] propelled a boat on a river with this new engine. Claims were that this device was able to carry out work at literally no cost, and Joule, who was interested in scientific and technological achievements since

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