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Events on Thursday 25 January 1798 2
1798Rumford's cannon-boring experimentsHeat linked to motion rather than a fluidCount Rumford presented a paper to the Royal Society describing how boring cannon in Munich produced seemingly limitless heat through friction. The work challenged the caloric theory of heat and pointed toward heat as a form of motion.
1798Rumford's cannon-boring experimentsHeat linked to motion rather than a fluidCount Rumford presented a paper to the Royal Society describing how boring cannon in Munich produced seemingly limitless heat through friction. The work challenged the caloric theory of heat and pointed toward heat as a form of motion.