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Lord Kelvin Biography
[Repubished from Cassier’s Magazine from the original article by By J.D. Cormack, B.Sc., M.I.E.E. published 1899.] AT the close of a century, unequalled in the history of the world for progress in civilisation and science, looking backward, and tracing the growth of old, the beginning and development of new sciences and the close union of…
Read MorePhotograph of the International Niagra Falls Commission, E. Mascart, W. C. Unwin, Lord Kelvin, Dr. Coleman Sellers and Col Turrettini
James Prescott Joule by Lord Kelvin
[as reprinted from Cassier’s magazine v. 6 May-Oct. 1894. Article By Lord Kelvin] The unveiling, last December, of a statue of Dr. James Prescott Joule, at Manchester, England, has given that city the possession of a work of art which will ever remain an ornament and an honor to it. Joule’s work began in Manchester,…
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