Nativitas: 24 Decembris 1818; Salford Obitus: 11 Octobris 1889; Sale Patria: Britanniarum Regnum, Britanniarum Regnum
Familia
Genitores: Benjamin Joule; Alice Prescott Coniunx: Amelia Grimes
Memoria
Sepultura: Brooklands
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Cum Domino Kelvin ad evolvendum absolutum temperaturae gradum collaboravit, magnetostrictionem investigavit, atque coniunctionem fluxionis electricae per resistentiam et caloris dissipati, nunc primam legem Joulianam appellatam, excogitavit. Eius experimenta de transformatione energiae primum anno 1843 edita sunt.
Iacobus Prescott Joule natus est anno 1818, filius Beniamini Joule (1784–1858), divitis braxatoris, et Aliciae Prescott uxoris, in Via New Bailey Salfordiae in urbeAnglica. Socius erat Societatis Electricae Londiniensis, a Gulielmo Sturgeon aliisque constitutae.
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