It is the Lord Kelvin’s Water Dropper aka Lord Kelvin’s Thunderstorm, invented in the 1860s by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin, the same fellow for whom the Kelvin temperature scale is named.

Despite the importance to common physical processes such as such friction and adhesion, scientists have so far relied on a rough, macroscopic description, first proposed in 1871 by Victorian physicist ...

With the death of Lord Kelvin on the 17th of December, in the 84th year of his life, there was ended a career full of usefulness to mankind. To wonderful scientific attainments he united a faculty ...

Lord Kelvin’s name comes up anytime you start looking at the history of science and technology. In addition to working on transatlantic cables and thermodynamics, he also built an early ...

LORD KELVIN occupied for a long time a unique and cosmopolitan position as the universally venerated head of the physical science of the age. Where he did not himself create new knowledge ...