Energy and Empire: A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Abstract

List of illustrations Preface Footnote abbreviations Part I. The Making of the Natural Philosopher: 1. From the ashes of revolution 2. Clydeside 3. A Cambridge undergraduate 4. The changing tradition of natural philosophy 5. Professor William Thomson Part II. The Transformation of Classical Physics: 6. The language of mathematical physics 7. The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity 8. The dynamics of field theory: work, ponderomotive force, and extremum conditions 9. Thermodynamics: the years of uncertainty 10. Thermodynamics: the years of resolution 11. T & T' of treatise on natural philosophy 12. The hydrodynamics of matter 13. Telegraph signals and light waves Thomson versus Maxwell Part III. The Economy of Nature: The Economy of Nature: The Great Storehouse of Creation: 14. The irreversible cosmos 15. The age of the sun controversies 16. The secular cooling of the earth 17. The age of the earth controversies 18. The habitation of earth Part IV. Energy, Economy, and Empire: The Relief of Man's Estate: 19. The telegraphic art 20. Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity 21. Rule, Britannia: the art of navigation 22. The magnetic compass 23. Baron Kelvin of Largs Bibliography Index.

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