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Kelvin : life, labours and legacy / edited by Raymond Flood, Mark McCartney, and Andrew Whitaker.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physicists--Great Britain.
- Physicists.
- Physics--History--19th century.
- Physics.
- Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron, 1824-1907.
- Kelvin, William Thomson.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (371 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 fundamentalresearch, while also working with industry and technological advances. He corresponded and collaborated with other eminen
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Preface; 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: Great Irish Physicists; 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 Earth11. 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; Notes on Contributors; Notes, References, and Further Reading; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [308]-345) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-152824-2
- 9786611852658
- 1-281-85265-1
- OCLC:
- 236793195
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