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He graduated from St. Peter's College, Cambridge, in , where he won notable honors. At the age of 22, he became professor of natural history at the University of Glasgow, and remained with that institution the rest of his life. He was elected a chancellor of the university in He was knighted in , as one who had done more than any other scientific man to develop submarine telegraphy.

In addition to many inventions in telegraphy, he originated the quadrant electrometer, improvements on the compass, and several other inventions. In , he was made a peer by Queen Victoria, and subsequently received a great many honors. Lord Kelvin made many contributions to fundamental theory of electricity. He had a passion for the investigation of natural phenomena, and had acquired a mastery of mathematics that served him as a valuable instrument of research and partly accounted for his remarkable precision of thought.

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His participation in the activities of scientific and engineering organizations, long after their power to confer distinction upon him had ceased, deserves emulation. His death occurred December 17, Emmons , Charles Steinmetz , T. Rice , William B. Potter , Eugene Griffin , Edward M. Ord , George Foster Peabody. Papers of Lord Kelvin.

Biography of Lord Kelvin , by Silvanus Thompson,