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WELCOME >> THE EXPERIMENT

See James Joule do the famous paddlewheel experiment, originally carried out in the basement of a Salford brewery in 1845. There are 18 pages which load automatically. Please use the replay button to replay the current scene, or 'quit' to return to this introduction page.

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Try the experiment for yourself. What happens if you make changes to it ?

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