Kelvin: Life, Labours and Legacy

by Raymond Flood

Lord Kelvin was one of the greatest physicists of the Victorian era. Widely known for the development of the Kelvin scale of temperature measurement, Kelvin's interests ranged across thermodynamics, the age of the Earth, the laying of the first transatlantic telegraph cable, not to mention inventions such as an improved maritime compass and a sounding device which allowed depths to be taken both quickly and while the ship was moving. He was an academic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199231257
• ISBN13: 9780199231256
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.8" x 9.7"