Word: kelvinator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...only two previously: in 1902 for the late William Thompson, Lord Kelvin, "father of submarine telegraphy" in 1919 for Cardinal Mercier...
...gallant Colonel Crompton, his old friend and associate, roared out: "Your father orders you to speak!" Dr. Michael I. Pupin of Columbia University addressed the visitors, with great names upon his tongue for them to honor, the names of electricity's pioneers-Volt, Ampere, Ohm, Faraday, Hertz, Kelvin, Helmholtz, Gauss, Coulomb...
...recent lecture a Harvard professor said: "Lord Kelvin, while at the University of Glasgow, neglected his students and did a great many worth while things for the world." Many a professor has found it useful to observe Lord Kelvin's distinction between "students" and "worth while things...
...received this year the Kelvin Gold Medal from) the Royal Society, at the Kelvin Centenary in London, "in recognition of his preeminence in those branches of engineering with which Baron Kelvin's* scientific work and researches were identified...
...Baron William Thomson Kelvin, born in Belfast in 1824, was the most eminent physicist of his time. He published over 300 original papers covering every branch of physical science. He made possible submarine telegraphy, and invented practically all the instruments used by electrical engineers for measurement...