JOULE, JAMES PRESCOTT.

On some Thermo-dynamic Properties of Solids. Received April 22, - Read June 10, 1858.

(London, Taylor and Francis, 1859). 4to. No wrappers as extracted from "Philosophical Transactions", Vol. 149 - Part I, pp. 91-131, 2 textillustrations. Fine and clean.

First appearance of this paper which "contains a detailed account of experiments bearing on the thermo-eleastic relations of metals and india-rubber. Suggested by Sir William Thomson, these investigations concerns the "heat developed by longitudinal compression and that absorbed on the application of tensile force." (Bibliotheca Mechanica p. 178).

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