Energy and Empire
A Biographical Study of Lord Kelvin

Table of Contents

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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