William Thomson : an introductory biography / Mark McCartney -- Educating William : Belfast, Glasgow, and Cambridge / Alex D.D. Craik -- On the early work of William Thomason : mathematical physics and methodology in the 1840s / I. Grattan-Guinness -- James Thomson and the culture of a Victorian engineer / Peter Bowler -- Fifty-eight years of friendship : Kelvin and Stokes / Alastair Wood -- Kelvin and Fitzgerlad : great Irish physicists / Denis Weaire -- Concepts and models of the magnetic field / John Roche -- 'A dynamical form of mechanical effect' : Thomson's thermodynamics / Iwan Rhys Morus -- Kelvin and engineering / Bernard Crossland -- William Thomson's determinations of the age of the earth / Patrick N. Wyse Jackson -- Thomson and Tait : the Treatise on natural philosophy / Raymond Flood -- Kelvin on atoms and molecules / Elizabeth Garber -- Kelvin and the development of science in Meiji, Japan / Colin Latimer -- Kelvin, Maxwell, Einstein and the ether : who was right about what? / C.W. Francis Everitt -- Kelvin and statistical mechanics / Oliver Penrose -- Kelvin : the legacy / Andrew Whitaker.