Millikan, Robert Andrews, Gale, Henry Gordon · Boston : Ginn and Co. · leaf 160
) Hence for all ordinary purposes mercury thermometers are sufficientlyaccurate, and no special standardization of them is necessary. But inall scientific work, if mercury thermometers are used at all, they mustfirst be compared with a gas thermometer and a table of correctionsobtained. The errors… … Sir William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) One of the best known and most prolific of nineteenth-century physictf^^bo?in Belfast, Ireland ; professor of physics in Glasgow University, Scotland, formore than fifty years; especially renowned for his investigations in heat andelectricity; originator…
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