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James Prescott Joule James Prescott Joule brought on new technology and ideas that was yet to be seen by the world. Joule was born in Salford, England to a wealthy brewery owner. Joule was the second son the wealthy brewer. Joule had poor health growing up with a spinal injury, with so much time that he can’t play sports or exercise he turned to book and experiments. He was a very shy and kept to himself much of the time. His father encouraged him to fulfill his dream and built a laboratory at home so he can do his experiments. In 1833 his father became very ill so he had to work on running the brewery and only on experiments with his very little spare time. James Joule was home school till the age of 16 when he was sent to Cambridge to study under a British chemist named John Dalton. Joules main goal was to replace steam engines with electric motors. He experimented to find out about electro magnetic, after 1841 his main interest became heat. Also in 1843 he conducted several experiments to determine the mechanical value of heat. He first tried rotating an electromagnet in water between two other poles of a magnet then measuring the overall heat and current in the wate