Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm is build around the concept of water droplets falling through inductors. Two streams of water fall from small holes in reservoirs at the top. Those streams fall ...

Scientists demonstrate controlled oscillations of quantum vortex core lines in superfluid helium, visualizing helical waves ...

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 ...

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 ...

Despite the importance to common physical processes such as such friction and adhesion, scientists have so far relied on a rough, macroscopic description, first proposed in 1871 by Victorian physicist ...

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The invention of the mirror galvanometer inspired poetry and led to Thomson being knighted Lord Kelvin, the first scientist to receive such an honor. And Kelvin's name lives on; one year after his ...

With the death of Lord Kelvin on the 17th of December, in the 84th year of his life, there was ended a career full of usefulness to mankind. To wonderful scientific attainments he united a faculty ...

Lord Kelvin theorized in 1880 that stimulating a thin vortex line would produce a helical deformation, later known as a ...

LORD KELVIN occupied for a long time a unique and cosmopolitan position as the universally venerated head of the physical science of the age. Where he did not himself create new knowledge ...