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OUR summary in last week's issue of the proceedings at Lord Kelvin's jubilee celebration gives only a faint idea of the completeness and success with which every part of the festival was carried out, or of the enthusiasm which characterised what was the world's tribute of admiration to the achievements and personal qualities of a truly great man. The list of delegates and visitors which we give on pp. 174-5 will convey some idea of the unanimity with which science and learning throughout the world have done honour to one who, besides advancing pure science in a remarkable degree by his own abstract researches, has not disdained to apply his great knowledge of scientific principles to the construction of apparatus and appliances which have promoted peace and good will among men and aided commerce by placing continents in telegraphic communication, by improving and facilitating navigation, and last but not least, diminished the perils to which those who sail the seas are exposed. A great physical mathematician, a physicist to whom physical principles are intuitive, an engineer whom engineers have united to honour as one of the greatest of themselves, Lord Kelvin has many scientific interests, and there is no department of science which is not the larger and richer for his work.
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GRAY, A. Lord Kelvin's Jubilee. Nature 54, 173–181 (1896). https://doi.org/10.1038/054173e0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/054173e0