Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.

Thomson
Thomson, William (Lord Kelvin) (1824-1907) Born: Belfast, Ireland

is best known as a physicist who championed the absolute temperature system that now bears his name (Kelvin). Thomson did significant work to expand Faraday's ideas. It was Thomson's work that Maxwell would extend into his seminal publications on electromagnetics. Thomson received a knighthood for his theoretical suggestions for the use of low-voltage signals in
the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. Thomson was proved correct when on a third attempt, a cable was laid and worked. An earlier high-voltage cable had failed.
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