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| 26 May 1846 , to William Fleming (MS Kelvin F20)
"... As the Chair of Natural Philosophy in the university of Glasgow has recently become vacant, and as you are one of the Electors, I take the
liberty of announcing to you my intention of becoming a candidate for that
situation… "
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16 October 1851, to Duboscq-Soleil [instrument makers in Paris]
(MS Kelvin D153)"... J’ai aujourd’hui recu votre lettre du 10 Octobre, et je m'empresse
vous ecrire pour vous apprendre que les instruments que j’ai commandes ne
doivent pas etre expedies avant que j’aurai recu une permission les prendre sans payer les droits de douane
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[Early 1850’s], to Donald MacFarlane (MS Kelvin Mc15)
"… I want the upper room (the old Clay Library) prepared for
experimenting. There must be a suitable firm table with gas (powerful
pipes) introduced as in the lecture room table. Get an estimate for
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29 April 1859, to George Stokes (MS Kelvin S82)" ... It surely is a very great thing to have distinctly demonstrated
by accurate measurement continued in summer and winter, [as Forbes has
done], that the middle of a glacier moves faster than its sides and
bottom..."
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24 August 1860, from Joseph Everett (MS Kelvin E6)
" ...I have just returned from a 3 weeks’ trip to the States and have
succeeded in making the acquaintance of several of the scientific men... Bache, Henry, W. B. Rogers, Sillivan Gould, Le Comte, Walcott Gibbs,
Gillespie and Alexander... "
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17 July 1865, from Margaret Thomson (MS Kelvin T137)
"All shared my indignation at the statement in the Times [of 15 July,
that the best of the signalling instruments for use on the Atlantic cable
was invented by Varley - with no mention of Thomson] which had distressed
me so much. I hope to hear from you that you have done something to put
this matter right, and that Mr Varley was nice about it... I do hope you will get on pleasantly on the voyage [on the Great
Eastern] and find your companions agreeable... Tell me everything... "
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19 March 1866, from M. G. Easton (MS Kelvin E1)
"... An ingenious sort of man in this village [Darvel, by Kilmarnock]
has the idea that he has discovered something like the ‘perpetual motion’!
He has drawn out his plan on the enclosed sheet... "
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4 June 1867, from Daniel Halloran (MS Kelvin H3)
"... None will more rejoice than your humble servant, who told your
father when he saw a white headed boy solving the problems before the
class that you would be a professor in the College yet... "
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16 September 1867, from Robert Clifton (MS Kelvin C32)
"... I found on my appointment at Oxford that the department of physics
was provided only with a lecture room, a small laboratory attached, which
is completely absorbed for lecture purposes, and a small office. No
arrangements had been made for students to work practically themselves...
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15 December 1868, from William Siemens (MS Kelvin
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"... I have to lay a submarine cable ... in the Black Sea for the Indo-
European Telegraph Co. ... I should feel extremely obliged to you for
informing me whether you have had cause to form a less favourable opinion
of Hooper’s core since the date of your report... "
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3 March 1869, from John Ranking & Co (MS Kelvin R3)
"... Our friends in Egypt... hope to be able to obtain a firman from the
Egyptian Government which will restrict Turkish subjects in Egypt from
infringing your patent..."
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15 April 1869, from Sir James Anderson (MS Kelvin A16) ... to my judgement you acted too hastily in writing so warmly of an
untried form of cable...
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5 December 1872, from James Napier (MS Kelvin N1)
"... Then, why have you not learned,
Foreign measures to disown,
For you use some very queer ones,
Neither British, nor your own.
Your mile's a kilometre,
Your pound’s a kilogramme... "
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9 May 1890, to William Bottomley, Jnr. (MS Kelvin B33)... I omitted an essential member of my Isle of Man girder yesterday...
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21 May 1897, from Oliver Lodge (MS Kelvin L21)"... The references to Marconi in the papers make me write to remind you
of my lecture of 1894... from which Marconi evidently got all his ideas..."
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16 March 1898, to George Westinghouse (MS Kelvin LB5/110-113)"... Now for the heating and ventilating of passenger cars on railways.
I found only yesterday something which I think will please you and will
greatly simplify all our plans."
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16 September 1899, from John Townsend (MS Kelvin T208)
"... I have read your experiments and have also looked up the references
to the two points in which the ultra violet light differs from Rontgen
Rays in its effect upon gases..."
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