James prescott joules biography
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James Prescott Joule
James Prescott Joule (24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an Englishphysicist, born in Salford, near Manchester.
James prescott joules biography
In his time he had great contribution to the world of electricity and thermodynamics. He was best known for discovering Joule's law, which described electric heating by saying the amount of heat produced each second in a conductor by a current of Electricity is proportional to the resistance of a conductor and to the square of the current.
The unit for this is joule, equal to one watt-second. Later Joule worked with William Thomson to find out that the temperature of gas falls as gas expands. This principle was then known as the Joule-Thomson effect.
Early life
[change | change source]The son of Benjamin Joule (1784–1858), a wealthy brewer, James Prescott Joule was born in the house next to the Joule Brewery in New Bailey Street, Salford on 24 December 1818.[1] James was tutored at the family home 'Broomhill', Pendlebury, nea