Beer and Salt
If you inherit a brewery, what do you do? In particular, if you inherit this brewery that we went past today? Many might be content to spend their days in a well financed and mildly alcoholic haze, but not James Prescott Joule. He decided to make his brewery more profitable, and around 1840 wondered if replacing the steam engines used in the brewery with the newly invented electric motors would save money. He set up experiments to determine the amount…