5 THE STONE-BREAKERS
and mobility of t” of anyman . “I felt quite edly.
timent is understandable, for Kelvin really orian superman. , tics at titution ransferred to Glasgo ted to Glasgoy at tender age of ten. Bytime ies, udied at institutions in London and Paris,graduated from Cambridge (op prizes for roics, and someime to launcy as ed afelloerten (in Frencics of sucy t o publis ty-to Glasgoy totake up a professorsural pion fifty-threeyears.
In till 1907 and ty-te 661papers, accumulated 69 patents (from ed t led directly to tion of refrigeration, devised te temperaturet still bears ed ting devices t alloelegrams to be sentacross oceans, and made innumerable improvements to sion, from tion of a popular marine compass to tion of t deptical acs.
ical romagnetism, t,ionary.
4 y to calculatet age of tion occupied mucting it rig effort, in 1862 for an article in apopular magazine called Macmillan’s , suggested t tcautiously allo t ions could be icular ed tself, but I offer ion by t P. Atkins, just to provide a sense of t;t; t, ted last; t La not even be a la; In briefest terms, tates t a little energy is aled. You cant ualmotion device because no matter , it ually run do la you cant create energy and t you cant reduce temperatures to absolute zero; tes, times expressedjocularly as (1) you cant break even, and (3) you cant get out of the game.
“sources noo us are prepared in t storeion”—but it t unlikely.
itime Kelvin in ions and lesscorrect. inually revis