Thomas Seebeck discovered the phenomenon of thermomagnetism, which is now called the "Seebeck effect." It was discovered in 1821, and though it made relatively little impact upon the scientific world for nearly a century, the Seebeck effect eventually...

The thermoelectric effect is the direct conversion of temperature differences to electric voltage and vice versa. Simply put, a thermoelectric device creates a voltage when there is a different temperature on each side, and when a voltage is applied to...

Anyone who's taken a hands-on course in electric circuits knows that resistors warm when conducting current. The amount of heat is proportional to the product of the resistance and the square of the current. This relationship, known as Joule's Law, was discovered in...

Calgary-headquartered Global Thermoelectric Inc., a leading developer of solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) products, has been awarded a grant of up to $500,000 (U.S.) from the Propane Education and Research Council in the United States to fund the development of a propane fuel processor....