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David Haywood
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PA Radio: Science Report -- The Age of Thermodynamics (Energy Special, Part 6 of 12)
Part six of a twelve-part series looking at energy. This week: the changes wrought by the nineteenth century advances in the science of thermodynamics...
NOTE: References, further information, and a complete transcript of this week's episode are available here.
This episode of Public Address Science was originally broadcast on Radio Live, 17th November 2007, 5 pm - 6 pm.
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Judi Lapsley Miller
From: Wellington
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Thanks for another fascinating episode David! It's quite amazing how recent the laws of thermodynamics are. Pretty fundamental stuff!
David Haywood
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Judi Lapsley Miller wrote:
It's quite amazing how recent the laws of thermodynamics are.
And, as another PA reader has pointed out, there's a few people (and their sucker customers) who still haven't caught up with thermodynamic developments in the last 160 years or so...
Deborah
From: Adelaide
Since: Nov 2006
Posts: 529
That "stirrer" in your garden shed sounded suspiciously like an egg-beater in your kitchen, David.
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