LORD KELVIN AND THE TEAPOT.
Domestic science has of recent years adopted the phraseology of the laboratory and become the favorite field of chemists and economists. Twenty years 'ago, however, it was still a novelty to he treated not flippantly, perhaps, hut with less seriousness than it receives today. It was something like joy, therefore, that a few students admitted to the sombre meetings of the Eoyul Scientific Society cf Edinburgh heard the present Lord Kelvin announce * Tea Cosies ’ as the subject of his paper for ilie evening. In that bleak land where the afternoon cup of tea is the universal habit, the padded hoed to slip over the teapot and arrest the dissipation of its heat is everywhere in use. Lord Kelvin had made an exhaustive study of radiation in proportion to the surface of the teapot, and wished to show that the surface of the teapot might be reduced to a size where the cosy would no longer keep it warm, but make' it actually eolder. The boy on. the back seat listened
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Evening Star, Issue 12028, 28 October 1903, Page 8
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