The Life of James Joule.

Title: The Life of James Joule.
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The Life of James Joule.

James Prescott Joule, born in Manchester, England, lived from 1818-1889. His father was a prosperous brewery owner. James was born during the Romanticism Age and the Industrial Revolution. He was home schooled, and then at sixteen, was sent to Cambridge. There he studied with John Dalton, a British Chemist. After graduating, he began to study on his own, in a laboratory, at his father's house.          Most of his research had to do with the production of …showed first 75 words of 246 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 246 total…Not only was James Joule a researcher, but an inventor. Many things he discovered go into new technologies and devices today. Today, he is recognized for electrical welding and the displacement pump.         Towards the end of his life, around 1875, he ran out of money doing his experiments, because he paid for most of them. Shortly after that, he became ill and died. In his honor, a unit of energy, the Joule, was named after him.

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