VETERAN SCIENTIST ILL.
LORD KELVIN. til TEU3GEAFE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPTRIGHI. ■■■■'- London, Decomber 12. Lord Kelvin,.tho eminent scientist,-who is 83 years of ago, is ill.
Instructed by his father in his early youth, Wiliiam Thomson, Baron Kelvin, mntriculatcd at Glasgow University at the early ago of ten years. Ho is be>t known to the world by his services in the field of electricity, and particularly in submarine, telegraphy." Ho acted us electrician for the Atlantic cables, 18i7-5( and 18C5-GG. Ho also invented the niirroi galvanometer and siphon recorder in connection with submarine telegraphy, and the mariner's compass and 1 navigational sounding machine, as well as many electrical measuring instruments. He was born at 'Belfast on Juno 20, 1524.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 5
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115VETERAN SCIENTIST ILL. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 69, 14 December 1907, Page 5
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