Lord Kelvin

With the closing of the year, the greatest scientist of the world has passed away. The active life of one late Lord kelvin covered the industrial development of the electrical art, with which he has been continuously associated. It was his good fortune to have entered the exact field for which he had been apparently best fitted by nature, and his education and training combined to make his career the most notable of the two centuries. He embodied all the qualifications of a genius without the usually accompanying eccentricities. He recognized his duties to his fellow men, while true to his love of science. His inventions were of the highest type, and through their utility and value, he was enabled to pursue his chosen paths throughout an active and useful life, and until he was actually stricken down by fatal illness. Never has a man been so universally honored; never have honor; been more honestly deserved; neve; have honors been more modestly accepted; and it may be well said never were honors more heartily appreciated. Looking back over the career, he may well have felt thankful that he had been granted ingenuity, ability and opportunity to perform his part in adapting the forces of nature to the welfare of mankind.