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Having met Joule for the first time at the 1847 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in Oxford, Thomson initially accepted that Joule s experiments had shown that work converted into heat. Committed to Carnot s theory of the production of work from a fall of heat, however, he could not accept the converse proposition that work had been converted into heat could simply be recovered as useful work. Therefore, he could not agree to Joule s claim for mutual convertibility. By 1848 he had appropriated from the lectures of the late Thomas Young (reprinted in the mid-1840s) the term energy as a synonym for vis viva (the term in use at the time, traditionally measured as mtc) and its equivalent terms such as work, but as yet the term appeared only in a footnote. 

This address recapitulated material Crookes had presented in 1886 in a talk to the Chemical Section of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, of which Crookes was president (see Keller 1983, 12-13). 

General Committee to be printed in extenso.)" British Association for the Advancement of Science. Box 172, in Item 44. Frederick Soddy Papers, Bodleian Library, Oxford University. 

Graham similarly adopted the new notation "in such cases where it may be expedient," for example, in expressing his results for the acids and salts of phosphorus.67 The British Association for the Advancement of Science constituted a committee that reported in 1835 that a majority of the sixteen members approved the new "continental" notation, with the proviso that "it is desirable not to deviate. . . from algebraic usage except so far as convenience requires."68... 

Ralph Fowler, "A Report on Homopolar Valency and Its Quantum-Mechanical Interpretation," 26246, in Chemistry at the Centenary (1931) Meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (Cambridge W. Heffer and Sons, 1932) 226. 

British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1952. Mathematical Tables, Vol. X Bessel Functions, Part II Functions of Positive Integer Order, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 

At a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, the Director of the [British ] Noise Abatement Society reported that at a research center in Marseilles, France, an infrasound generator had been built which generated waves at 7Hz. He said that when the machine was tested, people in range were sick for hours. The machine could cause dizziness, nervous fatigue, seasickness , and even death up to 8km away (Ref6)... 

E. Rutherford, The electrical structure of matter, British Association for the Advancement of Science, Report (1923) 1-24. This work is not included in J. Chadwick (ed.), The Collected Papers of Lord Rutherford of Nelson, 3 vols. (London, 1963). 

Jannke, E., and F. Emde Tables of functions. New York Dover publication 1945.Voir aussi Mathematical Tables", Vol. I. Ed. British Association for the Advancement of Science. 2nd Edition p. 31—33. Cambridge University Press 1946. 

The impetus for further developments was the recognition of the economic significance of corrosion phenomenon during the 19th century that led the British Association for the Advancement of Science to sponsor corrosion testing projects such as the corrosion of cast and wrought iron in river and seawater atmospheres in 1837. Early academic interest in corrosion phenomenon (up to the First World War) was followed by industrial interest due to the occurrence of equipment failures. An example of this is the corrosion-related failure of condenser tubes as reported by the Institute of Metals and the British Non-ferrous Metals Research Association in 1911. This initiative led to the development of new corrosion-resistant alloys, and the corrosion related failure of condenser tubes in the Second World War was an insignificant problem. 

His numbers were not entirely accepted at first. The British Association for the Advancement of Science was sceptical. Turner was asked to verify the figures and found them to be... 

In the summer of 1914, while the English school of scientists was hot on the trail of the mystery of the chemical elements, one of Professor Townsend s students at Oxford stopped to say good-by to him. The boy was to board a steamer that morning for Australia to take part in the forthcoming meetings of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. With him was his mother Amabel, later the wife of William Johnson Sollas, professor of geology at Oxford. 

A memorable event in this period was the visit of the British Association for the Advancement of Science to Leicester in 1933. It was the custom at that time for the Sectional Dinner to be open only to male members, and this custom fell particularly unfairly on women chemists. With characteristic energy and hospitality, Mrs. (later Lady) Robinson arranged a dinner party at the same time as the Sectional Dinner, in the same hotel and with the same menu, to which she invited other women chemists as well as wives of the sectional officers and of other prominent members. This bold action finally broke down the practice of restricting the dinner to men, and at all meetings of the British Association subsequent to 1933 the dinners of Section B have been graced by the presence of ladies.01... 

This fallacy Rankine regarded as being at the bottom of a number of evils in modern society especially the lack of mutual communication between men of science and men of practice. He lamented both the tendency of men of science to favour and relish the abstruse and of practical men to over-value the practical skill acquired by observation and experience in business by rejecting what science could contribute. But on a hopeful note he considered that this lack of communication was in decline. Evidence for this, Rankine thought, lay in the founding of university chairs in engineering science and also in the mutual communication between the Mechanical Sciences and Physical Sciences sections of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The Northern philosophers became a powerful force in the Association from the 1850s. 

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