Weblog on Physics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_L%C3%A9onard_Sadi_Carnot Carnot's Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire   When Carnot began...

In 1586 Domenico Fontana erected the obelisk in the Square of St. Peter's. Wiki: "This feat of engineering took the concerted ...

I read today that Sir Isaac Newton  was a "Master of the Mint." It is quite interesting this activity of the great scientist. But,...

James Prescott Joule   FRS  (1818 – 1889) was an English  physicist  and  brewer , born in  Salford ,  Lancashire . Joule studied the nature...