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A MESSEL memorial address, entitled “Available Energy,” was delivered by Prof. R. A. Millikan on Sept. 5 in New York at a joint meeting of representatives of the British Society of Chemical Industry and the Institution of Chemical Engineers with the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. As might be expected from Prof. Millikan's recent researches, his treatment of his subject proceeded upon somewhat unorthodox lines, and in the greater part of his lecture he was concerned with astronomical problems, rather than with the physical and engineering thermodynamics suggested by his title. The apology he made for offering an apparently abstract subject of this nature to a technical audience was the fact, perhaps usually insufficiently appreciated, that many of the distinctive features of modern civilisation come from our present knowledge of mechanics, which, in turn, was largely developed through the pioneer work done in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries upon extra-terrestrial problems.
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Energy and Atoms. Nature 122, 555–556 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/122555a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/122555a0