Labels:poster | reckoner | tree OCR: 1824 On February 16 William Thomson (later Lord Kelvin) born in Belfast Northern Ireland Hi Father become professor al engineering and physics the University of F Glasgow Scotland. He educates William and his brother James at home 1834 At the age of only 10 Thomson goes to the University of Glasgow 1841 Attends the University of Camhridge, Fingland 1845 Travels to Paris France to work in alaboratory and meets leading European scientists. He makes com parative study of the worl of the English physicist Michacl Faraday (1791 -1867) and the French physicist Charle Coulomb (1736 1806) 1846 Return to take the chair natural philosophy Glasgow There are no research laboratories in British univetsities so Thomson builds the first teaching laboratory 1848 Publishes paper putting forward the idea an ...
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