Heat & Work

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rumford
- thermodynamics
  - New Experiments upon heat…. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 76 (1786): 273–304; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1786.0014.
  - Experiments upon heat…. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 82 (1792): 48–80; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1792.0007.
  - An inquiry concerning the source of the heat which is excited by friction [cannon boring experiment]. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 88 (1798): 80–102; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1798.0006.
  - An inquiry concerning the weight ascribed to heat. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 89 (1799): 179–194; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1799.0012.
  - An enquiry concerning the nature of heat, and the mode of its communication. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 94 (1804): 77–182; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1804.0009.
  - An account of a curious phenomenon observed on the glaciers of Chamouny…. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 94 (1804): 23–29; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1804.0005
- ballistics
  - New experiments upon gun-powder…. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 71 (1781): 229–328; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1781.0039.
  - Experiments to determine the force of fired gunpowder. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 87 (1797): 222–292; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1797.0014.
- optics
  - An account of a method of measuring the comparative intensities of the light emitted by luminous bodies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 84 (1794): 67–106; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1794.0012.
  - An account of some experiments upon coloured shadows. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 84 (1794): 107–118; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1794.0013.
- other
  - …Donation to the Royal Society, for the purpose of instituting a prize medal. Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 87 (1797): 215–218; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1797.0011.
mayer
- Bemerkungen über die Kräfte der unbelebten Natur. Julius Robert von Mayer. Annalen der Chemie und Pharmacie. Vol. 42 (1842): 233–240; doi: 10.1002/jlac.18420420212.
- Die Mechanik der Wärme. Julius Robert von Mayer. Stuttgart: J.G. Cotta'schen, 1867. A collection of Mayer's scientific writing including the article mentioned above where he introduced the concept that later became the first law of thermodynamics.
- Über die Erhaltung der Energie. Julius Robert von Mayer. Berlin: Gebrüder Paetel, 1889. Correspondence between Mayer and the neurologist Wilhelm Griesinger on the conservation of energy.
joule
- On the mechanical equivalent of heat. James Prescott Joule. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Vol. 140 (1850): 61–82; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1850.0004.
- New determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat. James Prescott Joule. Proceedings of the Royal Society. Vol. 169 (1878): 365–383; doi: 10.1098/rstl.1878.0011.
helmholtz
- "On the Conservation of Force [Energy]. Introduction to a Series of Lectures Delivered at Carlsruhe in the Winter of 1862–1863." Popular Lectures on Scientific Subjects. Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, translated by Edmund Atkinson. New York: Appleton (1872): 317–362.
video on demand
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
  - Temperature and Gas Laws, Hot discoveries about the behavior of gases make the connection between temperature and heat.

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