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From Steam Engines to Life?

机译:从蒸汽机到生活?

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One afternoon in 1842, in the town of Walsall in the heart of England's industrial midlands, two young men stood by a canal, watching a lock fill with water. The rising water lifted a barge crammed with valuable trade goods, one small step up on its climb to some unknown industrial destination. The two men mused upon this ingenious use of power, this impressive demonstration of the simple technology underpinning Victorian Britain's industrial dominance.rnThe two men were brothers. One was James Thomson, a shipbuilder's apprentice later to become Professor of Engineering at Glasgow University. The other was James's brother William, destined for an even grander career. William's sojourn as Professor of Natural Philosophy—also at Glasgow— would span half a century and include fundamental contributions to an astonishing range of sciences and technologies, from the transport of fluids to the design of ultrasensitive telecommunications. William Thomson would ultimately be ennobled by Queen Victoria, becoming Lord Kelvin of Largs.
机译:1842年的一个下午,在英格兰工业中部心脏地带的沃尔索尔镇,两个年轻人站在一条运河旁,注视着满是水的船闸。不断上升的水抬起了一艘挤满有价值贸易商品的驳船,仅一小步就爬上了一个未知的工业目的地。这两个人沉思于这种巧妙的权力使用方式,这是维多利亚时代英国工业统治基础上简单技术的令人印象深刻的展示。两人是兄弟。其中一位是造船厂的学徒詹姆斯·汤姆森(James Thomson),后来成为格拉斯哥大学的工程学教授。另一个是詹姆斯的兄弟威廉,注定要从事更宏伟的事业。威廉曾在格拉斯哥(Glasgow)担任自然哲学教授,此后的旅程将持续半个世纪,其中包括对从流体传输到超灵敏电信设计的一系列科学技术的基础性贡献。威廉·汤姆森(William Thomson)最终将成为维多利亚女王的贵族,成为拉格斯(Largs)的开尔文勋爵(Lord Kelvin)。

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  • 来源
    《American Scientist》 |2007年第6期|472-474|共3页
  • 作者

    Mark Haw;

  • 作者单位

    School of Chemical,Environmental and Mining Engineering at the University of Nottingham;

  • 收录信息 美国《科学引文索引》(SCI);
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
  • 中图分类 自然科学总论;
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