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Sources of further information


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  • Cardwell, DSL, James Joule: a biography, Manchester, 1989
  • Joule, JP, Scientific Papers, Physical Society of London, vols. 1 and 2, 1884
  • Lowery, H, 'The Joule Collection in the College of Technology, Manchester', Journal of Scientific Instruments, vols. VII.12 and VIII.1, 1930-1931
  • Pate, AG, James Prescott Joule, 1818 - 1889: a bibliography of works by and about him, unpublished, 1981
  • Reynolds, O, Memoir of James Prescott Joule, Literary and Philosophical Society, Manchester, 1892
  • Sibum, Heinz Otto 'Reworking the Mechanical value of Heat: instruments of precision and gestures of accuracy in early Victorian England', Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 26:1, 73-106, 1995

Links to websites:

The James Joule Appreciation Society
www.salford.org.uk/joule/joule.htm

Kelvin gallery, Hunterian Museum
http://www.gla.ac.uk

Science Museum
http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk

UMIST History of Science Dept
http://www.umist.ac.uk/hst/

Manchester Literary & Philosohical Society
http://www.manlitphil.co.uk