Acton Square
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Acton Square
Image: © David Dixon Taken: 19 Mar 2014
The house on the left is Joule House, 1 Acton Square. It was the home of James Prescott Joule, notable physicist who established the principle of the mechanical equivalent of heat and whose name is now used for the SI unit electrical work, the Joule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joule . See Image] The house is now owned and used by the University of Salford.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.484165
Longitude
-2.273021