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 ...

In a new study published in Nature Physics, researchers have developed the first controlled method for exciting and observing Kelvin waves in superfluid helium-4. First described by Lord Kelvin in ...

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 — also known as William Thomson — hypothesized a shape known as an isotropic helicoid. As its name implies, the shape would look the same from any angle. Kelvin predicted that such ...

The pleasant rhythm of waves lapping at the lake shore is caused by wind blowing over the water at a faster speed than the ...

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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 ...

From thermodynamics to refrigeration and the development of radio, Lord Kelvin’s contributions to science were many and varied Nineteenth-century scientist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin ...

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 ...

A talk on one of Largs and the world's most influential scientific figures in history is to be provided at a forthcoming talk ...

William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Called Kelvin Helmholtz clouds, or just wave clouds, these clouds are a sign of turbulence in the air. The cloud’s name comes from Lord Kelvin and Hermann von Helmholtz, the 19th Century ...