William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

It is the Lord Kelvin’s Water Dropper aka Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm, invented in the 1860s by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, the same fellow for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named.

Shan writes - Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin 1824 - 1907) was appointed to the position of Chair of Natural Philosophy (the subject we now call Physics) in 1846. He remained at the University of ...

But the Board of Electors, including Sir William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Prof. G. G. Stokes, and Prof. G. H. Darwin, knew what it was doing, and the bold appointment has been amply justified by the ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

the indifference of the Royal Society and wondered why Professor Thomson himself was silent. William Thomson and Lord Kelvin are two names inextricably linked in the history of science.

The tablet, with a portrait relief, is by sculptor Francis Derwent Wood and was unveiled on 30th November 1921 by Sir J.J. Thomson, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. The inscription reads: John ...

Shan writes - This tide gauge was invented by William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) c.1880 and manufactured by his instrument maker James White of Glasgow in 1882. The gauge was one of several made for ...

William Thomson, first Baron Kelvin, was born in Belfast on the 26th ... of Niagara for manufacturing purposes was first discussed, Sir William Thomson was made chairman of the advisory board ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime ... he also built an early computing device to predict tides. Kelvin, whose real name was William Thomson, became interested in tides in a roundabout way ...