Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early computing ...

THE simplicity of the harmonic methods of analysis and prediction of tides is very fascinating, and the invention of the tide-predicting machine by Lord Kelvin almost ensured the success of the ...

A tide-predicting machine was a special-purpose mechanical analog computer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, constructed and set up to predict the ebb and flow of sea tides and the irregular ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. In 1872, the British physicist ...