Lord Kelvin, it's cold!
Sub-zero temperatures, ice and snow: a fitting portrait perhaps.
January 2010 winter view of the bronze statue of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin (1824- 1907)) to be found in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park. The sculptor was Archibald Macfarlane Shannan (1850-1915). Lord Kelvin entered Glasgow University at the age of ten and subsequently became Professor of Natural Philosophy at twenty two years old. Amongst Kelvin's achievements was the "Kelvin temperature scale" he was responsible for at least fifty inventions and he published more than six hundred scientific papers in his time.
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/HeritageTr...
Lord Kelvin, it's cold!
Sub-zero temperatures, ice and snow: a fitting portrait perhaps.
January 2010 winter view of the bronze statue of William Thomson (Lord Kelvin (1824- 1907)) to be found in Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park. The sculptor was Archibald Macfarlane Shannan (1850-1915). Lord Kelvin entered Glasgow University at the age of ten and subsequently became Professor of Natural Philosophy at twenty two years old. Amongst Kelvin's achievements was the "Kelvin temperature scale" he was responsible for at least fifty inventions and he published more than six hundred scientific papers in his time.
www.glasgow.gov.uk/en/Residents/Parks_Outdoors/HeritageTr...