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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...