Overview

Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic engaged in fundamental research, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminent men of science such as Stokes, Joule, Maxwell and Helmholtz, was raised to the peerage as a result of his contributions to science, and finally buried in Westminster Abbey next to Newton. This book contains a collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, covering the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907).

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Author:   Raymond Flood ,  Mark McCartney ,  Andrew Whitaker
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.70cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 25.30cm
Weight:   0.897kg
ISBN:  

9780199231256

ISBN 10:   0199231257
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   10 April 2008
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

FOREWORD ; LIFE ; 1. William Thomson: An Introductory Biography ; 2. Educating William: Belfast, Glasgow and Cambridge ; 3. On the Early Work of William Thomson: Mathematical Physics and Methodology in the 1840s ; 4. James Thomson and the Culture of a Victorian Engineer ; 5. Fifty-Eight Years of Friendship: Kelvin and Stokes ; 6. Kelvin and Fitzgerald ; LABOURS ; 7. Concepts and Models of the Magnetic Field ; 8. A Dynamical Form of Mechanical Effect : Thomson's Thermodynamics ; 9. Kelvin and Engineering ; 10. William Thomson's Determinations of the Age of the Earth ; 11. Thomson and Tait: The Treatise on Natural Philosophy ; 12. Kelvin on Atoms and Molecules ; LEGACY ; 13. Kelvin and the Development of Science in Meiji Japan ; 14. Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the Ether - Who was Right about What? ; 15. Kelvin and Statistical Mechanics ; 16. Kelvin - The Legacy

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...highlights Kelvin's crucial contributions to science, engineering and invention... Derry Jones Chemistry World

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Andrew Whitaker is Professor of Physics at Queen's University Belfast.

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