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In these references WT is William Thomson, and IT is his father, lames Thomson. Siblings are referred to by their first names only, for brevity.
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. .": from the QUA following Kelvin's lecture "Electrical Units of Measurement," in Practical Applications of Electricity (1884~.
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20, The paper appeared .
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p. 37, William noted on February 15: These and subsequent extracts are from NB29.
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p. 43, "Your lodgings are surely unnecessarily fine .
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p. 48, "greatly changed .
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. the Alma Mater of my scientific youth .
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2 CONUNDRUMS p. 66, "Caino7": On the dissipation of energy, PLA II; also SPT I 133.
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. .": Address delivered on the unveiling of Joules statue in Manchester, December 7, 1893, PLA II.
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2": CUL notebook NB 29, entry for March 16, 1843.
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. ." and further remarks about his lab at Glasgow: From the Bangor Laboratories, PLA II.
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1 0 ' p. 122, The problem finally came to Thomson attention: WT recounts the story in Ether, Electricity, and Ponderable Matter, MPP III.
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. .": footnote added lune 27, 1883, to Analytical and Synthetical Attempts to Ascertain the Cause of the Differences of Electrical Conductivity Discovered in Wires of Nearly Pure Copper, MPP II.
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. .": On the Early History of Submarine Cable Enterprise, MPP V
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. .": Presidential Address to the Society of Telegraph Engineers, lanuary 14, 1874, PLA II.
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. .": Of Geological Dynamics, PLA II.
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, ~ O p. 186, "Water Babies, Sunken Rocks, end women of Italy": Tait, Philosophical Magazine, 25(1862)
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p. 198, "The lady was neither pretty, nor healthy, nor agreeable .
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p. 208, "the art of reading mathematical books .
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p.217, "especially inappropriate": Undated remark to David King, SPT II 649. p.218, In the very beginnings of science .
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p. 225, "Goodbye, goodbye, Sir William Thomson": SPT II 639; also AGK33.
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p. 243, "marvellously distinct": SPT II 671, from WT's report at the exhibition.
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p. 251, "I never satisfy myself until I can make a mechanical model .
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.": WT to G Darwin, November 20, 1884, SPT II 840.
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. .": SPT II 1047; footnote to a paper of 1904, but referring to work done sometime after 1887.
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. .": A statement to the press reprinted by SPT II 1002.
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. .": Helmholtz to his wife, 1884, SPT II 805.
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