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[Phys-L] Re: Caloric



At 13:23 -0500 6/4/05, Brian Whatcott wrote:

Forty years later or so, a more comprehensive theory was adopted called
Conservation of Energy, but this was revised to a Theory
of Conservation of Energy-Mass after ninety years or so,
which is the current state of affairs.
I have not identified here the earliest proponent of the Caloric theory
however.

Didn't Rumford (Benjamin Thomson, the expatriate American) have
something to do with the demise of the concept of caloric with his
cannon-boring experiments conducted in Germany sometime around 1800
(give or take 10 years)?

Hugh
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