Assertion: tide | /r/HasProperty | designed by sir william thomson
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text: The first tide predicting machine, designed in 1872 and of which a model was exhibited at the British Association meeting in 1873 (for computing 8 tidal components), followed in 1875-6 by a machine on a slightly larger scale (for computing 10 tidal components), was designed by Sir William Thomson (who later became Lord Kelvin).