Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this episode, let's talk about a scientist.

This scientist is James Joel. He was born on Christmas Eve, that is December the 24th, 1818 in Manchester, England.

As a child, Jewel had a spinal disorder, and that likely led him to be rather shy and withdrawn, and rather than devote his time to games

in the playground, he devoted his time to study.

Before Long Jewel became a serious student of the sciences, chemistry and physics.

He had tutors and was very interested.

But his father became seriously ill, and Jule needed to devote himself to the family business.

But he wasn't quite ready to give up his science.

So he set up a lab in his home.

In the early hours before he would engage in his business, he would be doing experiments.

And long into the late hours of the evening, you could find Jule at his lab doing his experiments.

He loved to experiment and work on heat and electricity and

mechanical work and all of this resulted in several papers being presented

before England's scientific societies.

And all of this work would eventually earn James Joel his place in the history of science.

Joel was the first to demonstrate the validity of what has come to be called the first

law of thermodynamics.

Now for some of you you might be in school and you know this quite well.

For others of you this might be bringing back, I don't

know, hopefully good memories of days in high school, but the first law of thermodynamics tells

us that energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but it can be changed from one

form to another.

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