Lord Kelvin Monument : Kelvingrove Park Traditional Geocache

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Hidden : 5/4/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

This place is usually full of muggles so stealth and patience definately required. The size of the cache is Nano.

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Dedicated to Sir William Thomson, Baron Kelvin of Largs, perhaps the most celebrated scientist and academic of his generation, this bronze monument was undertaken by Archibald Macfarlane Shannan shortly after the great man's death in 1908. William Thomson moved from his native Belfast when his father became Professor of Mathematics at the University of Glasgow. He himself enrolled in the university at age ten, became Professor of Natural Philosophy (now Physics) at 22, and was knighted for his achievements at 44. In a career lasting more than fifty years, the prolific Lord Kelvin not only developed important thermodynamic and electrodynamic theories, but also applied his inventive mind to practical inventions such as the design of a marine compass and other instruments, the development of the first transatlantic cable and early applications of electricity. Lord Kelvin held more than fifty patents, published widely, and received a raft of awards and honours, though is perhaps best remembered for determining the temperature of Absolute Zero, now known as the Kelvin Scale. He was buried in Westminster Abbey (between Newton and Darwin!).

Also Located a few metres away is the Lister Monument.



Seated alongside Lord Kelvin is a bronze monument to Lord Lister, the Essex-born surgeon and professor whose research into antiseptic systems revolutionised medicine around the world. In his attempts to prevent bacterial infections during surgery, Lister's work showed that carbolic acid (a derivative of benzene) could adequately disinfect tools and instruments. Although ridiculed at first, eventually his ideas caught on and soon mortality rates in hospitals dropped by fifty percent. Lister was primarily based in Edinburgh and London during his long career, but it was during his tenure as Professor of Surgery at the University of Glasgow during the 1860s that he undertook his first experiments with carbolic acid. When the idea of a memorial to Lister was first mooted after his death in 1912, there were suggestions that a museum displaying his old equipment in the Royal Infirmary might be a fitting tribute. The outbreak of war and the subsequent lack of support from the Infirmary managers led to a revised proposal of a simple statue, to be cast in bronze by Scots sculptor George Henry Paulin. The representation of a vibrant Lister, seated atop a grey granite pedestal, was finally unveiled in September 1924.

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