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Contents
Backgrounds | 13 |
First researches | 29 |
The Lit Phil and the British Association | 49 |
Consolidation and development | 90 |
Technical considerations | 108 |
Coincidences | 122 |
The middle years | 156 |
Years of change | 185 |
Syntheses | 215 |
Some friends | 228 |
Last labours | 251 |
In retrospect | 269 |
Petition to the Prime Minister | 282 |
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| Title | James Joule: A Biography |
| Author | Donald S. L. Cardwell |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0719034795, 9780719034794 |
| Length | 333 pages |
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