When all over the world industry already was transforming motion into heat, sound, light, and electricity, and each one into each other, then only came Grove’s theory of the “correlation of physical forces”; and Grove’s work had the same fate before the Royal Society as Joule’s.
Kropotkin discusses how industrial advancements preceded theoretical developments in physical forces.
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