Joule House - Asteroid 12759 Joule And Lunar Impact Crater Joule - Salford, UK
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This early 19th Century house is named after James Prescott Joule who was an English physicist who gave his name to the SI derived unit of energy, the Joule.
Waymark Code: WM11WYR
Location: North West England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/01/2020
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A plaque on the wall tells us that he lived in the house for a time.
Joule House
(Grade II Listed)
Built early 19th Century
Salford-born scientist
James Prescott Joule
(1818-1889) lived here
1849-1854
In 2011 Salford University took over the building as an energy research centre.
James Prescott Joule
"James Prescott Joule FRS FRSE (24 December 1818 – 11 October 1889) was an English physicist, mathematician and brewer, born in Salford, Lancashire. Joule studied the nature of heat, and discovered its relationship to mechanical work (see energy). This led to the law of conservation of energy, which in turn led to the development of the first law of thermodynamics. The SI derived unit of energy, the joule, is named after him.
Joule worked with Lord Kelvin to develop an absolute thermodynamic temperature scale, which came to be called the Kelvin scale. Joule also made observations of magnetostriction, and he found the relationship between the current through a resistor and the heat dissipated, which is also called Joule's first law. His experiments about energy transformations were first published in 1843."
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Asteroid 12759 Joule
12759 Joule (1993 TL18) is an outer main-belt asteroid discovered on October 9, 1993 by E. W. Elst at the European Southern Observatory.
Eric Walter Elst is a Belgian astronomer and a prolific discoverer of asteroids, with over 3,000 discovered so far (just 85 of these having been co-discovered).
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Joule (crater)
Joule is a lunar impact crater that lies on the far side of the Moon. It is located to the north-northeast of the walled plain Mach. It has a diameter of 96 kilometres.
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