The Life of
Ashton Stamper
Due: November 7
4 odd Definition of honor High respect. My definition people who have honor are respected well and known.
Benjamin Thompson was a physicist and inventor who was a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. While in the military Thompson noted that during the process of boring cannons, the metal turned red hot and even boiled the water used to keep it cool. The explanation was that if the metal broke into pieces the caloric is liberated from the metal. This gives rise to heat.
Thompson rejected this because, even when filing is not made heat is emitted by simple friction. Actually he showed that the amount of heat in boring was so much that if it poured back it could melt the other the metal. But stated more caloric could be achieved from the metal than it could possibly bear.
Thompson’s view was that the heat was due to mechanical motion of the cannon . He showed the quantity of heat was equal to the motional energy of the borer. He made it clear that heat was a form of energy. Thompson even said how much heat was produced by a given amount of motion. He was the first scientist to measure the mechanical equivalent …show more content…
He appreciated that the insulating properties of these natural materials arise from the fact that they inhibit the convection of air. He then made theories that made no sense and incorrect inference that air and in fact that all gases were perfect non conductors of heat. In 1797 he extended his claim about non conductivity to liquids The idea raised considerable objections from the scientific establishment John Dalton and John Leslie making particularly forthright attacks. Instrumentation far exceeding anything available in terms of accuracy and precision would have been needed to verify Thompson's claim. But he seems to have been influenced by his theological beliefs and it is likely that he wished to grant water a privileged and providential status in the regulation of human
Ashton Stamper
Due: November 7
4 odd Definition of honor High respect. My definition people who have honor are respected well and known.
Benjamin Thompson was a physicist and inventor who was a founder of the Royal Institution of Great Britain. While in the military Thompson noted that during the process of boring cannons, the metal turned red hot and even boiled the water used to keep it cool. The explanation was that if the metal broke into pieces the caloric is liberated from the metal. This gives rise to heat.
Thompson rejected this because, even when filing is not made heat is emitted by simple friction. Actually he showed that the amount of heat in boring was so much that if it poured back it could melt the other the metal. But stated more caloric could be achieved from the metal than it could possibly bear.
Thompson’s view was that the heat was due to mechanical motion of the cannon . He showed the quantity of heat was equal to the motional energy of the borer. He made it clear that heat was a form of energy. Thompson even said how much heat was produced by a given amount of motion. He was the first scientist to measure the mechanical equivalent …show more content…
He appreciated that the insulating properties of these natural materials arise from the fact that they inhibit the convection of air. He then made theories that made no sense and incorrect inference that air and in fact that all gases were perfect non conductors of heat. In 1797 he extended his claim about non conductivity to liquids The idea raised considerable objections from the scientific establishment John Dalton and John Leslie making particularly forthright attacks. Instrumentation far exceeding anything available in terms of accuracy and precision would have been needed to verify Thompson's claim. But he seems to have been influenced by his theological beliefs and it is likely that he wished to grant water a privileged and providential status in the regulation of human