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Was born in Donegall Square South in 1813. He was Professor of Chemistry at Belfast 'Inst' (Royal Belfast Academical Institution) and subsequently became Professor of Chemistry at Queen's College (later Queen's University Belfast) Discovery He discovered that every gas had a critical temperature and no matter what pressure you applied to it when it was above that temperature, you couldn't turn it into a liquid. But more importantly for him (and us) the opposite held true. In other words any gas, providing it was below a certain temperature, could be turned into a liquid if you put it under pressure. | Liquid gas This led him eventually to produce liquid gas. And so today we owe it to the original work done by Belfast man Thomas Andrews who has given us the liquid gas we now use to cook meals, give us heat and also which forms the coolant in refrigerators and fuel for rockets. |
Display The Andrew's Room at Queens commemorates this inventor and there is a permanent display of some of the equipment he made for his experiments in the David Kerr building. Awards Thomas Andrews was :- Fellow of the Royal Society
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
President of the education section of British Association
Hon. Fellow of the Royal Society Edinburgh
Vice President Chemical Society of London
President British Association
Doctor of Law at Universities of:- Edinburgh, Glasgow and Trinity Dublin.
He was offered a knighthood but declined. And Finally He once wrote a learned paper called .. "Suggestions for checking the hurtful use of alcoholic beverages by the Working Classes" . |
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