greatscots

What a handsome man! There must be many photos of his public sculpture on Flickr: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Steell

Extraordinary! The energy just jumps off the page!

Any EXIF data?? Jok3......the shutter must be long i think~!

What a Romantic photo! Not sure about the Napoleon pose though :-)

Hey, you dropped your phone.

What a lovely portrait! I'm probably reading way too much into it, but his face really tells the story of a determined man who has weathered a storm or 50.

Yes... I think if he told me, "Believe or perish!" my first thought would be that HE was the one doing the perishing!

I've never seen a photo of him before - cheerful looking chap!!

May God be praised for this man. People the world over are still being touched by the impact he made on it.

Dr. Livingstone, I presume?

Looks like this instrument is based upon Lord Kelvin's work and patents. At the Persistent URL the National Galleries of Scotland has this note : "He was also the partner of a Glasgow firm that made measuring instruments from his own patents" And here is some of his published work on such instruments: zapatopi.net/kelvin/papers/terrestrial_magnetism_and_the_... .

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Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Science, Technology, History, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

is he not a landlord of apublic house

Difficult to exaggerate how important a figure kelvin was.