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Energy and empire :a biographical study of lord Kelvin
Autor: Smith Crosbie
Rok: 1989
ISBN: 9780521261739
OKCZID: 129549640
Anotace
Energy and Empire is a definitive biographical study of Lord Kelvin, the most famous mathematical physicist of nineteenth century Britain. As part of this study, it delivers on a speculation long entertained by historians of science, that Victorian physics expressed in its very content the industrial society that produced it. Born into a family committed to liberal political reform and personal advancement, William Thomson identified himself as much with the shipyards and engineering works of his adopted city of Glasgow as with the democratic education offered in its university, Building outward from this secure base he integrated his national and international activities into that heady period of almost total British supremacy in industrial power, maritime expansion, and imperial influence. Drawing on a wealth of manuscripts and correspondence this book attaches Thomson's science as closely to little-known engineers Lewis Gordon, James Thomson, Fleeming Jenkin as to renowned physicists - Manwell, Stokes, Tait. Thus steam engines, telegraphs, vortex turbines, electrical and navigational instruments provide the warp over which the woof of the clectromagnetism, thermodynamics, and cosmology is woven. While his development of the doctrines of energy physics gave him an international scientific reputation. his engineering of the first transatlantic telegraph won him both the unqualified admiration of the British and American public and his knighthood from Queen Victoria. In addition, as the authority who set limits to the possible age of the world, Thomson won praise and blame for challenging Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. Well to-do entrepreneur, lion of physics, and adviser to government, eventually created Baron Kelvin of Largs, this Imperial scientist ended a remarkable career with a place alongside Newton in Westminster Abbey. This meticulously researched contextual biography of an eminent scientist will be of interest to historians of science and technology: intellectual, social and economic historians: physicists: engineers: geologists: and philosophers of science.
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