William (Thomson), 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs, physicist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, was buried in the nave of Westminster Abbey. He was born on 26th June 1824 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Visitors can also see two versions of the mirror galvanometer, developed by Kelvin to help carry telegraph signals across long-distance cables. Born in 1824 in Belfast as William Thomson, Kelvin is ...

Lord Kelvin was one of the world's most famous physicists The University of Glasgow is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of one of the world's most renowned scientists. Lord Kelvin ...