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Rt Hon. Sir Lord William Thomson OM PC GCVO PRS FRS FRSE PRSE

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James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, (later Lord Kelvin) discovered the Joule-Thomson Effect, on which mechanical refrigeration is based in this house in 1852

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