Author: Reynolds, Osborne [1842-1912]
Title: Memoir of James Prescott Joule [bound together with one other paper by Reynolds]
Description: Manchester [UK], Literary & Philosophical Soc, 1892-1896. Later boards. 22x13cm, viii,196 +14 p, Later (recent) binder's blind boards. The second item caption-titled.. Minor wear. Good. ¶ This is a single volume containing two works by Osborne Reynolds bound together. Includes: 1) "Memoir of James Prescott Joule" [1892, viii,196 pp;frontispiece. Biography of the English physicist who established the basis of the law of conservation of energy, the first law of thermodynamics]; BOUND TOGETHER WITH: 2) "On Methods of Determining the Dryness of Saturated Steam and the Condition of Steam Gas" [1896, 14pp; caption-titled. An extract from "Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society" Vol. XLI, No. 3].

Keywords: History of Science, British Physicists, Thermodynamics, Biography, Heat, Physics, James Prescott, Joule,