Lord Kelvin (1824-1907) was born in Belfast, the son of a Scottish father and an Ulster-Scots mother. He was the greatest scientist of the Victorian era, a devout Christian, and a Liberal Unionist.
He took a great interest in the laying of a telegraph cable under the Atlantic and helped to ensure its success. This was the greatest of all Victorian engineering projects and when it was completed in 1856 the first message to be sent was: 'Europe and America are united by telegraphic communication. Glory to God in the highest, on earth peace, and goodwill towards men.' (Luke 2:14)
Going back a little further the telegraph was developed by a Scotch-Irish inventor Samuel F B Morse (1791-1872), who invented Morse Code. In May 1844 Morse inaugurated the world's first commercial telegraph line with a message sent from the US Capitol o a railway station in Baltimore. The message was: 'What hath God wrought.' (Numbers 23:23)
Both Morse and Kelvin were men who knew and loved the Bible as the Word of God.
