An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction
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"An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction" is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, which was published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in 1798.[1] The paper provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat, and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.