Author:William Thomson (1824-1907)

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William Thomson
(1824–1907)

William Thomson

Works

• "Note on a Passage in Fourier's Heat" from the Cambridge Mathematical Journal, Volume III, November 1841
• "On the Possible Density of the Luminiferous Medium, and on the Mechanical Value of a Cubic Mile of Sunlight", Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1854), p.57.
• "On the Ultramundane Corpuscles of Le Sage" (From Edinb. Roy. Soc. Proc. Vol. vn. 1872, pp. 577-589 [read Dec. 18, 1871]
• Reprint of papers on electrostatics and magnetism, 1872 IA
• Elements of natural philosophy. With by Peter Guthrie Tait
  • 1873, part 1 Internet Archive identifier: b21725512
  • 1894, 2nd edition Internet Archive identifier: elementnatuphilo00kelvrich
  • 1895, new edition Internet Archive identifier: elementsofnatura00kelvuoft
• Mathematical and physical papers, 1882 IA 1, IA 2, IA 3, IA 4, IA 5, IA 6
• The practical applications of electricity, 1884 contributor IA
• "William Thomson's account of his Christian faith" (from the annual meeting of the Christian Evidence Society) (23 May 1889)
• Popular lectures and addresses, 1891 IA 1, IA 2, IA 3
• The molecular tactics of a crystal, 1894 IA
• The free expansion of gases: memoirs, 1898 contributor IA
• The second law of thermodynamics; memoirs, 1899 contributor IA
• Baltimore lectures on molecular dynamics and the wave theory of light. 1904 IA
• Scientific papers: physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, 1910 contributor IA

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Available Energy of Nature" in Popular Science Monthly, 20 (November 1881)
• "The Sun's Heat" in Popular Science Monthly, 31 (May 1887)

Works about Thomson

• "Thomson, (Sir) William," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Sketch of Sir William Thomson" in Popular Science Monthly, 10 (January 1877)
• "Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Thomson, William (1824-1907)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1912) in 3 vols.
• Kelvin, in Biographies of Scientific Men (1912)