Originally stimulated by the invention of the steam engine during the Industrial Revolution, thermodynamics developed into a universally applicable and powerful scientific theory.
Heat and Thermodynamics includes illustrations, a bibliography, timeline, and glossary for students who wish to research the subject in more detail.
Heat and Thermodynamics shows readers how the powerful ideas of energy and heat were developed by scientists over the centuries:
Explores the history of the ideas of what heat was from the ancient element of Fire through the notion of heat as an indestructible fluid - caloric - of the 18th century.
Explains the revolutionary experiments of Sadi Carnot, James Joule, and others as they develop the early theories of thermodynamics
Discusses great scientists such as Lord Kelvin, and their theories that helped formalize the new ideas of heat and energy
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