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Crash Course History of Science #26: Thermodynamics

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It's time to heat things up! LITERALLY! It's time for Hank to talk about the history of Thermodynamics!!! It's messy and there are a lot of people who came up with some ideas that worked and others that didn't and then some ideas that should have come first actually were figured out second. Trace the history of thermodynamics in this video. [12:28]

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Concepts
energy transfer, entropy, heat transfer, insulators, lord kelvin, steam, temperature, thermodynamics, laws of thermodynamics
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Additional Tags
absolute temperatures, caloric theory, carnot cycle, conservation of energy, count rumford, crash course history of science, first law of thermodynamics, joule, kelvin, second law of thermodynamics, steam engine, thermodynamic systems
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