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A personal and scientific memoir of Joule, one of the most influential and brilliant physicists of his day is interwoven with the scientific achievements of his contemporaries and how these developments influenced his work. Includes a detailed index.

In this first biography of the physicist Sir James Prescott Joule (1818 1889), his friend and collaborator Osborne Reynolds (1842 1912), Professor of Engineering at Owens College, Manchester, is keen to show how Joule, the son of a prosperous Salford brewer, was an 'ordinary' boy, enjoying regular walking trips to Snowdon, the Peaks and the Lakes; at the same time, he was greatly influenced by two years of tuition by John Dalton. His later experiments, observations and published papers are discussed and quoted at length. Reynolds stresses the influence Joule's work on heat and thermodynamics...