HPS200Y NAMES FOR 23 FEBRUARY 2000

Thomas Newcomen [1663-1729]

Benjamin Franklin [1709-1790]

Joseph Black [1728-1799]

Latent heat

James Watt (Watt & Boulton) [1736-1819]

Luigi Galvani [1737-1798]

Alasandro Volta [1745-1827]

Benjamin Thompson (Count Rumford) [1753-1814]

Imponderables; Royal Institution

Hans Christian Œrsted [1777-1851]

Michael Faraday [1791-1867]

Sadi Carnot [1796-1831]

Reflections on the Motive Power of Heat (1824)

Thermodynamics

 

1st IR: T --> S      2nd IR S--> T