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William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin.
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin, patented his telegraph receiver, known as the mirror galvanometer, in 1858. The device was designed for use on the Atlantic cable and was later adopted for use on most of the worldwide network of submarine cables.1