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In the course of a long career (he lived till 1907 and the age of eighty-three), he wrote 661 papers, accumulated 69 patents (from which he grew abundantly wealthy), and gained renown in nearly every branch of the physical sciences.
在漫長的生涯里（他活到1907年，享年83歲），他寫了661篇論文，總共獲得69項專利（因此變得很富裕），在物理學的差不多每個學科都享有盛譽。
Among much else, he suggested the method that led directly to the invention of refrigeration, devised the scale of absolute temperature that still bears his name, invented the boosting devices that allowed telegrams to be sent across oceans, and made innumerable improvements to shipping and navigation, from the invention of a popular marine compass to the creation of the first depth sounder. And those were merely his practical achievements.
其中，他提出一個方法，后來直接導致制冷技術的發明；設計了絕對溫標，至今仍冠以他的名字；發明了增壓裝置，使越洋發送電報成為可能；還對海運和航海作了無數改進，從發明一個深受歡迎的航海羅盤，到創造第一個深度探測器。這些只是他有實用價值的成果。
His theoretical work, in electromagnetism, thermodynamics, and the wave theory of light, was equally revolutionary.
他在電磁學、熱力學和光的波動等理論方面的成果同樣是革命性的。
