Popular lectures and addresses / by William Thomson.

  • William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin
Date:
1889-
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Credit: Popular lectures and addresses / by William Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ELASTICITY VIEWED AS POSSIBLY A MODE OF MOTION. \Abstract of a Friday evening Lecture before the Royal Institution of Great Britain, March 4, 1881 (Proc. R. I. vol. ix. p. 520).] WITH reference to the title of his discourse the speaker said : The mere title of Dr. Tyndall's beautiful book, Heat, a Mode of Motion, is a lesson of truth which has manifested far and wide through the world one of the greatest discoveries of modern philosophy. I have always admired it; I have long coveted it for Elasticity; and now, by kind permission of its inventor, I have borrowed it for this evening's discourse. A century and a half ago Daniel Bernouilli shadowed forth the kinetic theory of the elasticity of gases, which has been accepted as truth by
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