Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE (/ˈwiːtstən/; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of the Victorian era, his contributions...
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Wheatstone bridge was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie (sometimes spelled "Christy") in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone...
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Wheatstone may refer to: Cape Wheatstone, in Antarctica Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), a British scientist and inventor, eponymous for Wheatstone bridge...
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Electrical telegraph (redirect from Wheatstone-Cooke system)
system, and the most widely used needle telegraph, was the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, invented in 1837. The second category consists of armature...
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by English inventor William Fothergill Cooke and English scientist Charles Wheatstone. It was a form of needle telegraph, and the first telegraph system...
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Stereoscope (redirect from Wheatstone stereoscope)
invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone and constructed for him by optician R. Murray in 1832. Herbert Mayo shortly described Wheatstone's discovery in his...
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novelist Charles Dickens, and the celebrated wit Sydney Smith. The scien- tists included telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, geol- ogists Charles Lyell...
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scientists such as Andrew Crosse, Charles Babbage, Sir David Brewster, Charles Wheatstone and Michael Faraday, and the author Charles Dickens, contacts which she...
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England and Germany. The English version was invented in 1829 by Sir Charles Wheatstone, while Carl Friedrich Uhlig introduced the German version five years...
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led in turn to the Double Plate Sounder System. William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone in Britain developed an electrical telegraph that used electromagnets...
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