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In 1840, James Prescott Joule submitted to the Royal Society a paper describing experimental research on the heat produced by electric currents in metallic.
James Prescott Joule was born on 24 December 1818, at Salford..
Joule, James Prescott
(b. Salford, near Manchester, England, 24 December 1818; d. Sale, England, 11 October 1889)
physics.
Joule’s ancestors were Derbyshire yeomen; his grandfather had become wealthy as the founder of a brewery at Salford.
"I have my hopes, and very distinct ones too, of one day getting cerebral phenomena such that I can put them into mathematical.
James was the second of five children of Benjamin and Alice Prescott Joule. Together with his elder brother, James received his first education at home. From 1834 to 1837 the two brothers were privately taught elementary mathematics, natural philosophy, and some chemistry by John Dalton, then about seventy years old.
James never took part in the management of the4 brewery or engaged in any profession.
He shared his father’s Conservative allegiance and entertained conventional Christian beliefs.
Joule, James Prescott, 193.He married Amelia Grimes, of Liverpool, in 1847, but she died in 1854. He spent the rest of his life with his two children in various residences in the neighborhood of Manchester. He had a shy and sensitive disposition, and his health was delicat