List of illustrations |
Preface |
Footnote abbreviations |
The Making of the Natural Philosopher / Part I: |
From the ashes of revolution / 1: |
Clydeside / 2: |
A Cambridge undergraduate / 3: |
The changing tradition of natural philosophy / 4: |
Professor William Thomson / 5: |
The Transformation of Classical Physics / Part II: |
The language of mathematical physics / 6: |
The kinematics of field theory and the nature of electricity / 7: |
The dynamics of field theory: work, ponderomotive force, and extremum conditions / 8: |
Thermodynamics: the years of uncertainty / 9: |
Thermodynamics: the years of resolution / 10: |
T & T' of treatise on natural philosophy / 11: |
The hydrodynamics of matter / 12: |
Telegraph signals and light waves; Thomson versus Maxwell / 13: |
The Economy of Nature: The Economy of Nature: The Great Storehouse of Creation / Part III: |
The irreversible cosmos / 14: |
The age of the sun controversies / 15: |
The secular cooling of the earth / 16: |
The age of the earth controversies / 17: |
The habitation of earth / 18: |
Energy, Economy, and Empire: The Relief of Man's Estate / Part IV: |
The telegraphic art / 19: |
Measurement and marketing: the economics of electricity / 20: |
Rule, Britannia: the art of navigation / 21: |
The magnetic compass / 22: |
Baron Kelvin of Largs / 23: |
Bibliography |
Index |