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.... 30 07 2002 mechanical engineering biographies history Sir Bernard Crossland Bernard Crossland was born in Sydenham, South London in 1923. On leaving grammar school, aged 16, he was apprenticed to Rolls Royce Ltd, Derby. He was awarded an External University of London...

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..., that mechanical and thermal energy are interconvertible. Indeed the first law, second law , etc , of thermodynamics is, rather, a misleading terminology. For a history of the origin of thermodynamics, see Poincaré 99 and Truesdell and Muncaster 100 . Finally, from (52...