Back in 1895, there was a cranky, old Scottish physicist named Lord Kelvin (AKA William Thomson), who proclaimed, “Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.” Needless to say, he was ...

The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin was the professor of natural philosophy at the university for 53 ...

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William Thomson, better known as Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), was a Scottish physicist, engineer and inventor who defined absolute zero--the theoretical absence of all thermal energy. The musical ...

AT the general statutory meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, held on October 27, a marble bust of the late Lord Kelvin, by Mr. A. M'Farlane Shannan, which had been given by Lady Kelvin to the ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

I.—Gyrostatic Experiments in the Glasgow Classroom. WHEN I was a student, and afterwards when I was an assistant at Glasgow, Lord Kelvin lectured to his ordinary class twice a week, when he was not ...

Lord Kelvin was one of the world's most famous physicists The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin was ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early computing ...

In the comments to our recent article about Wimshurst machines, we saw that some hackers had never heard of them, reminding us that we all have different backgrounds and much to share. Well here’s one ...