Word: kelvinator
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...observed experiments and progress in Switzerland. He formed an International Niagara Commission, with Sir William Thompson (later Lord Kelvin) of Glasgow for chairman, to act as judges in a prize competition for the design of the Niagara generators. From the first, the Commission advised against Alternating Current, but the man who designed the prize-winning generator, a Scottish professor named George Forbes, joined Mr. Adams in the belief that Alternating would prove feasible...
...Adams returned to the U. S. with his mind made up. He was followed by a stream of letters and cablegrams from Lord Kelvin vigorously counselling against the "awful mistake," the "gigantic mistake" of adopting Alternating Current...
...construct AC generators on the Forbes design, and was quick to acknow ledge Mr. Adams' victory when the installations proved successful. The compressed-air plan was scrapped. Alternating Current began flashing from Niagara in volume sufficient to turn every wheel and light every bulb in Buffalo. When Lord Kelvin visited the Falls and signed the visitors' book, he cheerfully saluted the wisdom Mr. Adams had shown in proceeding contrary to the foremost electrical advice of the time...
Professor A. E. Kennelly of the Harvard Engineering School has been recommended by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Institution of Electrical Engineers for the Kelvin Medal, it was announced on Saturday. His nomination by these organizations establishes him as one of several candidates from various nations...
...award was created in 1902 to commemorate Lord Kelvin's researches, and is presented every three years by the Institute of Civil Engineers of Great Britain for research work in ocean telegraphy and electrical measuring devices...