The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Physics in Victorian Britain. (general and international).

Canadian Journal of History | December 1, 2001| | Copyright

The Science of Energy: A Cultural History of Physics in Victorian Britain, by Crosbie Smith. Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press, 1998. xii, 404 pp. $60.00 U.S. (cloth), $25.00 U.S. (paper).

"A great capitalist, or man who has acquired a lofty position, is respected because he has the disposal of a great quantity of energy.... When a man of wealth pays a labouring man to work for him, he is in truth converting so much energy of position into actual energy" [Balfour Stewart, The Conservation of Energy being an Elementary Treatise on Energy and Its Laws ...

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