More from William Thomson

  1. Measuring the Absolute: William Thomson and Temperature (2002) by Hasok Chang and Sang Wook Yi (PDF file)
  2. 'William Thomson: king of Victorian physics' by Mark McCartney in Physics World (1 December 2002)
  3. Kelvin is Lord! - satirical website devoted to the 'worship' of Lord Kelvin
  4. Radio has no future. X-ray is a hoax
  5. Tesla has contributed more to electrical science than any man up to his time.
  6. Do not imagine that mathematics is hard and crabbed, and repulsive to common sense. It is merely the etherealization of common sense.
  7. There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now. All that remains is more and more precise measurement.
  8. Symmetrical equations are good in their place, but 'vector' is a useless survival, or offshoot from quaternions, and has never been of the …

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