4. On a Mechanical Theory of Thermo-Electric Currents.
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- 1 January 1857
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- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
- Vol. 3, 91-98
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0370164600027310
Abstract
It was discovered by Peltier that heat is absorbed at a surface of contact of bismuth and antimony in a compound metallic conductor, when electricity traverses it from the bismuth to the antimony, and that heat is generated when electricity traverses it in the contrary direction. This fact, taken in connection with Joule's law of the electrical generation of heat in a homogeneous metallic conductor, suggests the following assumption, which is the foundation of the theory at present laid before the Royal Society.Keywords
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