Peltier Effect
Device for the investigation of the Peltier effect, Heinrich Daniel Rühmkorff, Paris, around 1877

In 1834, Jean Charles Athanase Peltier discovers that a current flowing through a solder joint between two different metals induces warming or cooling, depending on the direction of the current (inverse of the Seebeck effect).

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