Energy, dynamics, hidden machinery: Rankine, Thomson and Tait, Maxwell

Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part A 8 (3):251-268 (1977)
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W. J. M. Rankine and the Rise of Thermodynamics.Keith Hutchison - 1981 - British Journal for the History of Science 14 (1):1-26.

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