Reworking the mechanical value of heat : instruments of precision and gestures of accuracy in early victorian England / Heinz Otto Sibum.
Abstract:
'In this paper I address the questions of whether, and how, reworking historical experiments can contribute to the understanding of experimental practice in history. I concentrate on a particular experiment on the determination of the mechanical equivalent of heat performed by James Prescott Joule from Manchester.'
Studies in history and philosophy of science Vol. 26 (1995), p. 73-106