81. Kelvin, Lord William Thomson (1824-1907) -- From Eric Weisstein's World Of Scien lord kelvin The MIT Press lord kelvin. No cover image available for this edition. kelvin s BaltimoreLectures and Modern Theoretical Physics Historical and http://www.astro.virginia.edu/~eww6n/bios/Kelvin.html

Branch of Science Mathematicians Branch of Science Physicists ... Scottish Kelvin, Lord William Thomson (1824-1907) Scottish mathematician and physicist who contributed to many branches of physics. He was known for his self-confidence, and as an undergraduate at Cambridge he thought himself the sure "Senior Wrangler" (the name given to the student who scored highest on the Cambridge mathematical Tripos exam). After taking the exam he asked his servant, "Oh, just run down to the Senate House, will you, and see who is Second Wrangler." The servant returned and informed him, " You, sir!" (Campbell and Higgens, p. 98, 1984). Another example of his hubris is provided by his 1895 statement "heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible" (Australian Institute of Physics), followed by his 1896 statement, "I have not the smallest molecule of faith in aerial navigation other than ballooning...I would not care to be a member of the Aeronautical Society." Kelvin is also known for an address to an assemblage of physicists at the British Association for the advancement of Science in 1900 in which he stated, "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement." A similar statement is attributed to the American physicist Albert Michelson Kelvin argued that the key issue in the interpretation of the Second Law of Thermodynamics was the explanation of irreversible processes. He noted that if entropy always increased, the universe would eventually reach a state of uniform temperature and maximum entropy from which it would not be possible to extract any work. He called this the Heat Death of the Universe. With

82. Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) lord kelvin (william thomson) 18241907. lord inquiries. lord kelvin diedin 1907, aged 83. see also lord kelvin s stone at the necropolis. http://level2.phys.strath.ac.uk/ScienceOnStreets/lordkelvin.html

lord kelvin (william thomson) Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) was one of the founders of modern physics, probably the greatest applied scientist of the Victorian era. He became a student at Glasgow University when only 11 years old, and later became Professor of Natural Philosophy there - a position he held for 50 years. He was offered, and declined, the Cavendish Chair at Cambridge three times, but instead persuaded all the major scientists of the time to come to Glasgow. Kelvin had an excellent grasp of all aspects of physics: heat, light, sound, electricity. In his early days he performed experiments in electric lighting, thermodynamics and electrodynamics. He studied radioactivity, and encouraged the Curies in their experiments with radium. He was a very talented scientific insturment designer, and later became associated with James White's company (founded in 1849), when he realised many of the instruments he was devising in the laboratory could be adapted for manufacture. Early on, they made rangefinders for Professors Barr and Stroud (who had formed a company, Barr and Stroud, in response to an advert for an efficient rangefinder placed by the War Office in 1888). It was Kelvin's involvement in submarine telegraphy, and the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866, which made him internationally famous however, as well as his redesigned nautical compass and sounding equipment

83. GALVANOMETRE DE LORD KELVIN Translate this page GALVANOMETRE DE lord kelvin. HISTOIRE. lord kelvin (sir William Thomson 1824-1907),physicien anglais s’est illustré dans de nombreux domaines de la physique. http://we152.lerelaisinternet.com/AMSLLG/Galva_de_Kelvin.htm

GALVANOMETRE DE LORD KELVIN Retour au sommaire FONCTION Détecter (comme pour tout galvanomètre) une intensité ou une tension (ou une force électromotrice) aussi faible que possible. Qualité principale : la sensibilité. Ce galvanomètre est une amélioration du galvanomètre de Nobili. la mesure optique de la rotation le principe du galvanomètre de Lord Kelvin DESCRIPTION ET FONCTIONNEMENT L' armature mobile se compose de deux aimants fixés sur une tige T qui porte aussi en son milieu un petit miroir M et une lamelle de mica (pour amortir les oscilla­tions). L'armature mobile est suspendue à un fil de torsion mis en position verticale à l'aide des vis calantes du support. L'ensemble des deux aimants forme, autant qu'il est possible, un système astatique, c'est à dire qu'il est in­sensible à un champ magnétique extérieur uniforme tel que le champ magnétique ter­restre. Par contre, chacun des deux aimants est, indépendamment, soumis à un champ magnétique uniforme crée par deux paires de bobines b ,b parcou­rues par une première intensité I pour le premier aimant, et

84. Adventures In CyberSound: Thompson, William (Lord Kelvin) ADVENTURES in CYBERSOUND. William Thompson, (lord kelvin) 1824 1907. Born in Belfast, Ireland, this British physicist began the http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/KELVIN_BIO.html

A D V E N T U R E S in C Y B E R S O U N D William Thompson, (Lord Kelvin) : 1824 - 1907 Born in Belfast, Ireland, this British physicist began the papers on the laws of conservation and dissipation of energy. He published 661 papers on scientific subjects and patented 70 inventions. Knighted (as Lord Kelvin) by Queen Victoria for his work on the electrical engine, he was in charge of laying the first successful transatlantic cable in 1866. He was educated at the University of Glasgow and Cambridge University. Source: http://www.energy.ca.gov/energy/education/scientists/kelvin.html William Thomson's thermodynamics studies led to his proposal of an absolute scale of temperature. The Kelvin absolute temperature scale derives its name from the title, Baron Kelvin of Largs , that Thomson received from the British government in 1892. Born: 26 June 1824 in Belfast, Ireland Died: 17 Dec 1907 in Netherhall (near Largs), Ayrshire, Scotland) Thomson attended Glasgow University from the age of 10. While there he read Fourier's work on the application of abstract mathematics to heat flow. In 1841 Thomson entered Cambridge and took his BA in 1845. In that year he read George Green's work which had a major influence on Thomson's work. Thomson was appointed professor of natural philosophy at the University of Glasgow in 1846 and remained there for the rest of his career. In 1847-49 he collaborated with Stokes on hydrodynamical studies, which Thomson applied to electrical and atomic theory. The absolute scale he proposed in 1848 was based on a theory of heat by Sadi Carnot. Thomson also observed (1852) what is now called the Joule-Thomson effect, namely that the decrease in temperature of a gas when it expands in a vacuum.

85. Science Jokes:Lord Kelvin/William Thomson Contributions Index Jokes with Famous Scientists. lord kelvin/WilliamThomson. William Thomson, 1st baron kelvin (18241907), Irish physicist. http://www.xs4all.nl/~jcdverha/scijokes/Kelvin.html

Index Comments and Contributions Index Jokes with Famous Scientists Lord Kelvin/William Thomson William Thomson, 1st baron Kelvin (1824-1907), Irish physicist On flying machines (quotation) On X-rays (quotation) Other scientific blunders (quotation) Dissipation of energy (quotation) ... Comments and Contributions

86. Sir William Thomson - Lord Kelvin Sir William Thomson lord kelvin The object proposed in the presentarticle is the discovery of probable limits to the periods http://home.att.net/~a.caimi/Kelvin.html

Sir William Thomson - Lord Kelvin The object proposed in the present article is the discovery of probable limits to the periods of time, past and future, during which the sun can be reckoned on as a source of heat and light. Sir William Thomson, THE AGE OF THE SUN'S HEAT Download "THE AGE OF THE SUN'S HEAT" using a HTML (Blue) or PDF (Black) format. - THE AGE OF THE SUN'S HEAT - 1900 - Text - - THE AGE OF THE SUN'S HEAT - Adobe PDF - eBook - The Book Page Return to The Book Page using "Back" or in a new window using the "Book" link above. Report problems Tools News Links

87. FUSION Anomaly. Lord Kelvin Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache lord kelvin This nOdelast updated December 3rd, 2001 and is permanently morphing http://fusionanomaly.net/lordkelvin.html

Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache Lord Kelvin This nOde last updated December 3rd, and is permanently morphing... (11 K'an (Corn) / 2 Mak - 12.19. Kelvin, First Baron Title of William Thomson. British physicist who developed the Kelvin scale of temperature (1848) and supervised the laying of a trans-Atlantic cable (1866). friend and supporter of Nikola Tesla authored book and Telex External Link Internal Link Inventory Cache

88. Lord Kelvin's Machine James Blaylock lord kelvin s Machine. Grafton, London, 1993; 244pp paperback;£4.99; ISBN 0 586 21423 2. Another Dave Langford review. http://www.ansible.demon.co.uk/writing/ldkelvin.html

James Blaylock Lord Kelvin's Machine Another Dave Langford review. It's steampunk again, another slightly zany Scientific Romance set in a Victorian age owing more to Dickens, Stevenson and, at a pinch, Chesterton than any mere history. Stevenson supplies the epigraph and a minor character, the erstwhile Prince Florizel of Bohemia ( New Arabian Nights The Dynamiter ) whose part is so small that he's scarcely worth mentioning except as a further reminder that practically the whole gang from Blaylock's earlier Homunculus is here. Eminent scientist Langdon St Ives, his eminent rivals (including of course Lord Kelvin himself), his eminently hissable hunchback enemy Dr Ignacio Narbondo, plus a variety of allies, henchmen and interlopers: Binger, Hasbro, Keeble, Kraken, Mrs Langley, Parsons, Pule, Owlesby.... Homunculus was a novel that kept stacking up new excesses as its crowd of Sternean eccentrics tripped over one another in a prolonged and quite remarkably daft chase through London's mean streets and pea-soupers, after a variety of often inter-confusible McGuffins. The finale wrapped things up with a surreal image (the long-sought and long-offstage Homunculus piloting the aeronaut Birdlip's skeletal body towards the stars) which delivered satisfaction without actually resolving anything. Never apologize, never explain. Lord Kelvin's Machine takes place on a slightly different level of unreality, with `alternate science' replacing the allusions to magic and alchemy. Here Maxwell's Equations are sixteen in number and form a unified field theory that includes gravity. Here Earth can be made to swerve in its orbit by simultaneously detonating an entire chain of volcanoes, the trigger devices including a Rawls-Hibbing Mechanical Bladder and the rhythmic tread of a marching army.

89. Kelvin lord William Thomson kelvin Scottish physicist. (18241907), lord kelvin s Mansionin Largs. Contribution Information. 1902 article written by lord kelvin. http://webpub.allegheny.edu/group/shtravel/2002Summer/Kelvin.html

Traveling with the Atom Allegheny College Compiled by Glen E. Rodgers Colleen Riley Charles Ruggiero Static electricity generator designed by Kelvin. Lord William Thomson Kelvin Scottish physicist Lord Kelvin's Mansion in Largs. Contribution to the Development of the Atomic Concept Lord William Thomson Kelvin was one of the leading physical scientists and greatest teachers of his time. In the field of thermodynamics, Kelvin worked with James Prescott Joule to develop the Joule-Thomson cooling effect. In 1848 he proposed the absolute scale of temperature. In the field of electricity Lord Kelvin devised improvements in the manufacture of cables and in the construction of mirror galvanometers and in the siphon recorder. He was instrumental in the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cables, and he contributed to the theory of elasticity. With the help of Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Kelvin estimated the age of the sun and calculated the energy radiated from its surface. In 1902 he was instrumental in the development of the model of the atom, proposing that an atom consisted of negatively charged electrons embedded in a sphere of positive charge independently of J.J. Thomson. Web Sources of Biographical Information 1902 article written by Lord Kelvin Biography of Lord William Thomson Kelvin Kelvin Temperature Scale Some Web Sources on the History of Atomic Scientists: The History of Chemistry 1992 Woodrow Wilson Summer Institute Selected Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry Classic Papers from the History of Chemistry (and Some Physics too) Classic Chemistry compiled by Carmen Giunta ... Biographies of Famous Chemists, University of Liverpool

90. LORD KELVIN'S TELEGRAPH INSTRUCTIONS Kemp s diary includes the following entry for June 3rd 1898 Gave a show to lordand Lady kelvin and lord Tennyson who sent and paid for their message. , http://www.marconicalling.com/museum/html/objects/ephemera/objects-i=315.001-t=2

LORD KELVIN'S TELEGRAPH INSTRUCTIONS VIEW LARGE IMAGE SOURCE: Marconi plc PRODUCED: 03 June 1898 These hand written instructions accompanied the message below which was transmitted as the first commercial wireless message. The instructions are inscribed on a Post Office Telegram form and read: Send same messages also to Lord Rayleigh, 10 Downing Street, London SW, and Preece General Post Office, London, changing Cambridge for London in message.' By sending these telegrams and stating that he had paid to do so, Kelvin was informing the Government that he was contravening the monopoly that was held by the Post Office. George Kemp's diary includes the following entry for June 3rd 1898: 'Gave a show to Lord and Lady Kelvin and Lord Tennyson who sent and paid for their message.' WORLD'S FIRST WIRELESS STATION - ISLE OF WIGHT FIRSTS OF EARLY SUMMER PREECE, WILLIAM, H. JAMESON-DAVIS, HENRY ... SECOND EXPERIMENTS AT ROYAL NEEDLES HOTEL: MORSE TAPES

91. SJSU Virtual Museum William Thomson kelvin. was born on June 26, 1824 in kelvin is remembered for his work in thermodynamics known as the kelvin scale. kelvin also investigated the oscillating http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/Museum/kel.html

William Thomson Kelvin was born on June 26, 1824 in Belfast Ireland. He attended Cambridge and Glasgow Universities. In 1846 he accepted a position as a professor at the University of Glasgow. Kelvin is remembered for his work in thermodynamics. He and James Joule investigated the relationship between mechanical energy and heat, their work resulted in the Joule-Thomson cooling effect. He also developed a temperature scale that is known as the Kelvin scale. Kelvin also investigated the oscillating nature of electrical discharges. He contributed to our understanding of the theory of elasticity, the electrodynamic properties of metals, and magnetism. Working with others, he estimated the age of the sun and computed the energy radiated from it. In terms of inventions, Kelvin assisted with the laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable, the mirror galvanometer, the tide predictor, a mariner's compass, a depth sounder, and the siphon recorder. His writings include Papers on Electricity and Magnetism (1872), Mathematical and Physical Papers (1882, 1883, 1890). For his work he was knighted in 1866, selected as President of the Royal Society, and received the Order of Merit (1902). Edmund Kelvin died on December 17, 1907. References Debus, A.G. (1968).

92. Fusion Firmly opposed to Darwinian natural selection, William Thompson, later LordKelvin, was a professor at the University of Glasgow and one of the great http://www.nobel.se/physics/articles/fusion/sun_1.html

I. The Age of the Sun How old is the sun? How does the sun shine? These questions are two sides of the same coin, as we shall see. The rate at which the sun is radiating energy is easily computed by using the measured rate at which energy reaches the earth's surface and the distance between the earth and the sun. The total energy that the sun has radiated away over its lifetime is approximately the product of the current rate at which energy is being emitted, which is called the solar luminosity, times the age of the sun. The older the sun is, the greater the total amount of radiated solar energy. The greater the radiated energy, or the larger the age of the sun, the more difficult it is to find an explanation of the source of solar energy. To better appreciate how difficult it is to find an explanation, let us consider a specific illustration of the enormous rate at which the sun radiates energy. Suppose we put a cubic centimeter of ice outside on a summer day in such a way that all of the sunshine is absorbed by the ice. Even at the great distance between the earth and the sun, sunshine will melt the ice cube in about 40 minutes. Since this would happen anywhere in space at the earth's distance from the sun, a huge spherical shell of ice centered on the sun and 300 million km (200 million miles) in diameter would be melted at the same time. Or, shrinking the same amount of ice down to the surface of the sun, we can calculate that an area ten thousand times the area of the earth's surface and about half a kilometer (0.3 mile) thick would also be melted in 40 minutes by the energy pouring out of the sun.

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