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find time to take his meals properly — just ran in and out 

 again. The experiments were so delicate that many were 

 carried out in the night, because a cab or cart passing along 

 the road disturbed them, though the laboratory was at the 

 back of the stables." 



" The conduct of Thomas Woods, M.D., in i860, gave 

 him much trouble ; and he was very angry with him for 

 suggesting that he had made alteration in or addition to 

 the essay he sent to Paris, when it was published in En-gland, 

 but the deposition of the translator, Mr. L. A. J. 

 Mordacque, to the effect that the published paper was 

 precisely word for word the same as that he had translated, 

 settled that matter. Dr. Woods concluded the controversy 

 in truly Irish fashion, by saying Dr. Joule had made so 

 many discoveries that he thought he might have allowed 

 him two or three." 



In i860 and 1861 Joulewas much engaged experimenting 

 •on the condensation of steam, and published his well-known 

 results on the surface condensation of steam in the Philo- 

 .sopJiical Transactions for 1861. 



In this year his experimental work was subject to the 

 stoppage already referred to. This happened as follows : — 



After the sale of the Brewery in 1854, and the removal 

 of his steam engine to Oakfield, his father, having been 

 unwell for some years, died in 1858, leaving his house to be 

 sold. 



In consequence of this, Joule, in 1861, having purchased 

 '' Thorncliffe," Old Trafford, removed to that house, with 

 his apparatus, including the steam engine. It was then 

 Joule's work was stopped in a way which caused him great 

 and lasting disappointment. His brother writes : " What 

 really affected him was the refusal to be allowed the use of 



