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Description

Country's largest city & site of early Industrial Revolution in 18th cen.; religious center founded by St. Kentigern in 550; American Revolution disrupted trade until shipbuilding & textile industries began; notorious slums disappeared during 1980s.

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Sir William Thomson's multicellular voltmeter
circa 1890
zeoscope
circa 1880
Sir William Thompson's graded galvanometer (magnetometer & metal part only)
1884
Sir William Thomson's electric balance
circa 1890
Lord Kelvin's multicellular voltmeter
circa 1890

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James White

1850 - 1900
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John Thomas Quekett

1815 - 1861
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Glasgow Philosophical Society

founded 1802
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Sir William Thomson

1824 - 1907
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Walter Graham

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