DomainArticle in Book
Title"James Thomson and the Culture of a Victorian Engineer"
Title Of BookFlood, Raymond; McCartney, Mark, 1967-; Whitaker, Andrew (ed.), Kelvin : life, labours and legacy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)
AuthorBowler, Peter J.
Publication Date2008
Era Covered1840 — 1850
LanguageEnglish
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CountryNorthern Ireland
NotesFocuses on William Thomson's brother, James. James Thomson was primarily an engineer. He was the second Professor of Engineering at Queen's College, Belfast, serving from 1857 to 1873, at which point he left to take up the Chair of Engineering at Glasgow. James and William Thomson collaborated actively in the studies of thermodynamics which made the latter's reputation, and James made important studies in other areas of physics bearing on the engineering problems he encountered in the course of his work.
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