> Throughout the nineteenth century, as #CaraNewDaggett explains in her book The #BirthOfEnergy, work became increasingly understood through energy-based metaphors. This association was catalyzed by the “discovery” of energy itself in the 1840s by a group of British scientists and engineers who used steam-engine experiments to develop the laws of thermodynamics.
https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/what-human-energy
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