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Lord Kelvin : his influence on electrical measurements and units

By Paul , Kelvin , William Thomson; Kelvin , William Thomson; Tunbridge

Book information

Publisher
P. Peregrinus on behalf of the Institution of Electrical Engineers
Year
1992
ISBN
0-86341-237-8, 9780863412370
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
8 MB (8809919 bytes)
Series
History of technology series 18
Pages
107\119
Time added
2016-04-05 23:00:00

Description

Kelvin's great accomplishment was to bring together all the experimental scientists of his time into one co-operative association for investigators whose individual efforts were aided by their combined results, expressed in a notation and described in language understood by everyone. Abstract: This book concentrates upon the work of Lord Kelvin (William Thomson) in three phases; discovery of the fundamental concepts and coding them into universal laws, leading the adoption of the metric system, and securing worldwide use of units and standards (now the IEC system). Read more...

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