Charles Haldat
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Charles Nicolas Alexandre Haldat du Lys (1770–1852) was a French
physicist
who performed experimental work in hydrostatics.
He was a critic of the reliability of Benjamin Thompson's researches on the generation of heat
, An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction
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France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
physicist
Physicist
A physicist is a scientist who studies or practices physics. Physicists study a wide range of physical phenomena in many branches of physics spanning all length scales: from sub-atomic particles of which all ordinary matter is made to the behavior of the material Universe as a whole...
who performed experimental work in hydrostatics.
He was a critic of the reliability of Benjamin Thompson's researches on the generation of heat
Heat
In physics and thermodynamics, heat is energy transferred from one body, region, or thermodynamic system to another due to thermal contact or thermal radiation when the systems are at different temperatures. It is often described as one of the fundamental processes of energy transfer between...
, An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction
An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction
An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction, , Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society p.102 is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford that provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century...
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