Lord Kelvin

Author : James P. Blaylock
Publisher : Titan Books (US, CA)
ISBN 13 : 0857689851
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Kelvin's Machine written by James P. Blaylock and published by Titan Books (US, CA). This book was released on 2013-03-12 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the magical gears of Lord Kelvin's incredible machine lies the secret of time. The deadly Dr. Ignacio Narbondo would murder to possess it and scientist and explorer Professor Langdon St. Ives would do anything to use it. For the doctor it means mastery of the world and for the professor it means saving his beloved wife from death. A daring race against time begins...

Author : Crosbie Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521261739
Total Pages : 906 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Energy and Empire written by Crosbie Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 906 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of 19th-century Britain, delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it.

Author : David Lindley
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309096189
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Degrees Kelvin written by David Lindley and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2004-02-10 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LORD KELVIN. In 1840, a precocious 16-year-old by the name of William Thomson spent his summer vacation studying an extraordinarily sophisticated mathematical controversy. His brilliant analysis inspired lavish praise and made the boy an instant intellectual celebrity. As a young scholar William dazzled a Victorian society enthralled with the seductive authority and powerful beauty of scientific discovery. At a time when no one really understood heat, light, electricity, or magnetism, Thomson found key connections between them, laying the groundwork for two of the cornerstones of 19th century science-the theories of electromagnetism and thermodynamics. Charismatic, confident, and boyishly handsome, Thomson was not a scientist who labored quietly in a lab, plying his trade in monkish isolation. When scores of able tinkerers were flummoxed by their inability to adapt overland telegraphic cables to underwater, intercontinental use, Thomson took to the high seas with new equipment that was to change the face of modern communications. And as the world's navies were transitioning from wooden to iron ships, they looked to Thomson to devise a compass that would hold true even when surrounded by steel. Gaining fame and wealth through his inventive genius, Thomson was elevated to the peerage by Queen Victoria for his many achievements. He was the first scientist ever to be so honored. Indeed, his name survives in the designation of degrees Kelvin, the temperature scale that begins with absolute zero, the point at which atomic motion ceases and there is a complete absence of heat. Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, was Great Britain's unrivaled scientific hero. But as the century drew to a close and Queen Victoria's reign ended, this legendary scientific mind began to weaken. He grudgingly gave way to others with a keener, more modern vision. But the great physicist did not go quietly. With a ready pulpit at his disposal, he publicly proclaimed his doubts over the existence of atoms. He refused to believe that radioactivity involved the transmutation of elements. And believing that the origin of life was a matter beyond the expertise of science and better left to theologians, he vehemently opposed the doctrines of evolution, repeatedly railing against Charles Darwin. Sadly, this pioneer of modern science spent his waning years arguing that the Earth and the Sun could not be more than 100 million years old. And although his early mathematical prowess had transformed our understanding of the forces of nature, he would never truly accept the revolutionary changes he had helped bring about, and it was others who took his ideas to their logical conclusion. In the end Thomson came to stand for all that was old and complacent in the world of 19th century science. Once a scientific force to be reckoned with, a leader to whom others eagerly looked for answers, his peers in the end left him behind-and then meted out the ultimate punishment for not being able to keep step with them. For while they were content to bury him in Westminster Abbey alongside Isaac Newton, they used his death as an opportunity to write him out of the scientific record, effectively denying him his place in history. Kelvin's name soon faded from the headlines, his seminal ideas forgotten, his crucial contributions overshadowed. Destined to become the definitive biography of one of the most important figures in modern science, Degrees Kelvin unravels the mystery of a life composed of equal parts triumph and tragedy, hubris and humility, yielding a surprising and compelling portrait of a complex and enigmatic man.

Author : Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108027172
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs written by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive biography, first published in 1910, of the influential mathematician and physicist William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907).

Author : Joe D. Burchfield
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226080439
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth written by Joe D. Burchfield and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1990-05-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrait of Lord Kelvin

Author : Silvanus Phillips Thompson
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821837443
Total Pages : 742 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life of Lord Kelvin written by Silvanus Phillips Thompson and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Lord Kelvin, that includes Kelvin's personal recollections and data. It lets the documents and letters speak as far as possible for themselves.

Author : Paul Tunbridge
Publisher : IET
ISBN 13 : 9780863412370
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Kelvin written by Paul Tunbridge and published by IET. This book was released on 1992 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kelvin's great accomplishment was to bring together all the experimental scientists of his time into one co-operative association for investigators whose individual efforts were aided by their combined results, expressed in a notation and described in language understood by everyone.

Author : George F. Fitzgerald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Kelvin written by George F. Fitzgerald and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andrew Gray
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3752386126
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lord Kelvin written by Andrew Gray and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Lord Kelvin by Andrew Gray

Author : Andrew Gray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 350 pages
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Download or read book Lord Kelvin written by Andrew Gray and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: