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Works by Lord Kelvin at Project Gutenberg; O'Connor, John J.; Robertson, Edmund F., "Lord Kelvin", MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive, University of St Andrews; Works by or about Lord Kelvin at the Internet Archive; Works by Lord Kelvin at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks) Heroes of the Telegraph at The Online Books Page
The Kelvin water dropper, invented by Scottish scientist William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) in 1867, [1] is a type of electrostatic generator. Kelvin referred to the device as his water-dropping condenser. The apparatus is variously called the Kelvin hydroelectric generator, the Kelvin electrostatic generator, or Lord Kelvin's thunderstorm.
It had been long known that continuous electric currents flowed through the solid and liquid portions of the Earth, [5] and the collection of current from an electrically conductive medium in the absence of electrochemical changes (and in the absence of a thermoelectric junction) was established by Lord Kelvin. [6] [7] Lord Kelvin's "sea ...
The first tide predicting machine (TPM) was built in 1872 by the Légé Engineering Company. [11] A model of it was exhibited at the British Association meeting in 1873 [12] (for computing 8 tidal components), followed in 1875-76 by a machine on a slightly larger scale (for computing 10 tidal components), was designed by Sir William Thomson (who later became Lord Kelvin). [13]
William Thomson, later to become Lord Kelvin, became concerned with the nature of Dalton's chemical elements, whose atoms appeared in only a few forms but in vast numbers. He was inspired by Helmholtz's findings, reasoning that the aether , a substance then hypothesised to pervade all of space, should be capable of supporting such stable vortices.
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A more complicated version of an ampere balance, that removes this source of inaccuracy by a calibration step, is the Kibble balance, invented by Bryan Kibble in 1975. This experimental device was developed at government metrology laboratories worldwide with the goal of providing a more accurate definition of the kilogram , the world's standard ...
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