Electric motor used by James Joule, c.1860. Armature original but the rest may be replica. This simple electric motor was used by the scientist James Joule for experiments about energy. Joule was a ...

1 joule = 0.24 calorie.James Prescott Joule (1818-99) was the son of a wealthy Salford brewer. He became interested in science through receiving tuition from John Dalton, famed for his atomic theory.

1 joule = 0.24 calorie.James Prescott Joule (1818-99) was the son of a wealthy Salford brewer. He became interested in science through receiving tuition from John Dalton, famed for his atomic theory.

In the north choir aisle of Westminster Abbey is a white marble memorial to James Prescott Joule, physicist. The inscription reads: He was born in Salford near Manchester, a son of Benjamin Joule and ...