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Bearsden & Milngavie

Lord Kelvin - To Measure is to Know

Lord Kelvin - A talk by Prof Martin Hendry, University of Glasgow

Lord Kelvin, born William Thomson, was a pioneering British physicist, mathematician, engineer, and inventor. He is renowned for his foundational contributions to thermodynamics, electricity, magnetism, and engineering. His work profoundly shaped the scientific thought of the 19th century and beyond.

The man who put the Special K into the temperature scale, theĀ first and second laws of thermodynamiKs and the PhysiKs of heat as motion