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    Summary of Paul Sen's Einstein's Fridge
    Summary of Paul Sen's Einstein's Fridge
    Summary of Paul Sen's Einstein's Fridge
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    Summary of Paul Sen's Einstein's Fridge

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    #1 Jean-Baptiste Say, a French businessman, was sent to Britain in 1814 to study the country’s economy. He was impressed by the country’s technological innovation, and he believed that this was what had fueled its economic growth.

    #2 By 1820, steam power had revolutionized Britain’s mining industry. mines are shafts dug into the ground, and they are prone to flooding. The preindustrial horse-driven pumps struggled to lift water out of any mines that were more than a few yards deep. But by 1820, steam technology had advanced to the point where engines could easily pump water out of shafts that were over three hundred yards deep.

    #3 The steam engine was a huge improvement over the Newcomen engine, as it was much more efficient. However, it still consumed a lot of coal, and the people of England had a love-hate relationship with science.

    #4 The French were the first to recognize the economic benefits of using steam power. They faced a problem, however: coal was scarce south of the Channel. French engineers cared about engine efficiency in a way that British engineers did not.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIRB Media
    Release dateAug 6, 2022
    ISBN9798822563445
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      #1

      Jean-Baptiste Say, a French businessman, was sent to Britain in 1814 to study the country’s economy. He was impressed by the country’s technological innovation, and he believed that this was what had fueled its economic growth.

      #2

      By 1820, steam power had revolutionized Britain’s mining industry. mines are shafts dug into the ground, and they are prone to flooding. The preindustrial horse-driven pumps struggled to lift water out of any mines that were more than a few yards deep. But by 1820, steam technology had advanced to the point where engines could easily pump water out of shafts that were over three hundred yards deep.

      #3

      The steam engine was a huge improvement over the Newcomen engine, as it was much more efficient. However, it still consumed a lot of coal, and the people of England had a love-hate relationship with science.

      #4

      The French were the first to recognize the economic benefits of using steam power. They faced a problem, however: coal was scarce south of the Channel. French engineers cared about engine efficiency in a way that British engineers did not.

      Insights from Chapter 2

      #1

      Sadi Carnot was a French scientist who was born in 1796. He was educated at the Polytechnic School in Paris, which was preeminent in scientific higher education. His father, Lazare, was a gifted mathematician and engineer who had published a paper suggesting ways of improving the Montgolfier brothers’ hot-air balloon in 1783.

      #2

      The concept of temperature is easier to understand. It is a measure of how hot something feels. Heat is much more difficult to understand. It is the result of the transfer of heat from one substance to another.

      #3

      The idea that heat was an invisible substance called caloric was debunked in the 1800s, as many scientists realized that heat could not be created or destroyed. Instead, it seemed to be a limitless

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