File:Lord Kelvin photograph.jpg

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DescriptionLord Kelvin photograph.jpg	English: Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin.
Date	First published Photographische Gesellschaft, Berlin
Source	Portrait of William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, Smithsonian Libraries
Author	"Photo by Messrs. Dickinson, London, New Bond Street" (according to http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollections/hst/scientific-identity/fullsize/SIL14-T002-07a.jpg)
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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	20:47, 7 November 2010	939 × 1,176 (71 KB)	Quibik	Removed some JPEG artifacts, removed a vertical line, increased contrast.
	16:17, 16 July 2010	939 × 1,176 (36 KB)	LobStoR	lossless crop from source JPEG image, "lossless" reduction from 24-bit RGB to 8-bit greyscale
	23:06, 17 October 2005	944 × 1,180 (386 KB)	Fastfission~commonswiki	Photograph of William Thomson, Lord Kelvin. ==Licensing== Image source: http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/hst/scientific-identity/CF/display_results.cfm?alpha_sort=k Licensing: PD because of age (Kelvin himself died in 1907; seems very unli