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IN 1851, William Hopkins, of Cambridge, obtained a grant of £250 from the Government “for investigations on the effect of pressure on the temperature of fusion of certain substances”. It was stipulated that expenditure of the money should be under the control of a committee which included Joule.
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ARDERN, L. A New Joule Manuscript. Nature 175, 606 (1955). https://doi.org/10.1038/175606b0
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