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Bronze bust of Lord Kelvin by A. McFarlane Shannan, Glasgow, Scotland, 1942-1945.

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, Archibald Macfarlane Shannan (1850-1915)

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Bronze bust of Lord Kelvin with original stand by A. McFarlane Shannan, Glasgow, 1894-1915. bronze (copper, tin alloy). SCM - Telecommunications William Thomson, later Baron Kelvin, was an Irish physicist and mathematician who was a key figure in the development of the of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cable. He was born in Belfast in 1824, and joined Glasgow University when he was just 10. In 1841, he joined the University of Cambridge, where he published 11 papers over the course of his undergraduate career. He was made director if the Atlantic Telegraph Company in 1856, and was on board the HMS Agamemnon when the trans-Atlantic cable was being laid, along with his mirror galvanometer, an sensitive instrument for detecting electrical signals that he had recently developed.

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