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1 day ago · Active in industrial research and development, he was recruited around 1899 by George Eastman to serve as vice-chairman of the board of the British company Kodak Limited, affiliated with Eastman Kodak. [17] In 1904 he became chancellor of the University of Glasgow.
20 hours ago · For all of this, Thomson was first knighted in 1866, then later ennobled as Lord Kelvin in 1892 – the first ever scientist so honoured. And Thomson’s elegant combination of ultra-precision technology and cutting-edge theory to detect extremely faint signals resonates strongly with the story of our LIGO laser interferometers , the most sensitive scientific instruments ever built.
1 day ago · See the insightful preface by Lord Kelvin for the philosophical implications of Hertz’s discoveries. [[xix]] Heinrich Hertz, Electric Waves: Being Researches on the Propagation of Electric Action with Finite Velocity Through Space, (D.E. Jones, Trans.), (New York: Macmillan and Co., 1893), p. 18.
20 hours ago · In the late 19th century, Lord Kelvin pondered the possibility of a theory of everything. [110] He proposed that every body pulsates, which might be an explanation of gravitation and electric charges. His ideas were largely mechanistic and required the existence of the aether, which the Michelson–Morley experiment failed to detect in 1887.
20 hours ago · Lord Kelvin and George Darwin were surely very smart, but also rather lucky: actually tides are chaotic, nevertheless their prediction from past records was a relatively easy, successful task. Now, a posteriori, we understand the reason of the success of the method: although chaotic, the dynamics is such that the attractor dimension is quite low \(O(3- 4)\) [ 9 ].
2 days ago · Our post on William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) barely mentions his role in the Atlantic cable projects; we need to write a second post and discuss his mirror galvanometer. William B. Ashworth, Jr., Consultant for the History of Science, Linda Hall Library and Associate Professor emeritus, Department of History, University of Missouri-Kansas City.
1 day ago · The idea of using atomic transitions to measure time was first suggested by the British scientist Lord Kelvin in 1879, [204] although it was only in the 1930s with the development of magnetic resonance that there was a practical method for measuring time in this way. [205]
