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Charles Wheatstone

 
Gloucester 6 February 1802 -Paris  19 October 1875

     

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Experimenter English, was committed by a merchant of musical instruments until the publication in 1823, curious experiences on the sound. It also interested resonance column of air, the transmission of sound in solid conductors and linear (1831) and built a machine speaker.

In 1834 he was appointed professor at King's College, London, but leaves the chair after a few years. In 1834 publish its experiences in the electrical field. In 1837 he exhibited in the Quarterly Journal of Science the  experiences on sound and the description of an ingenious device, the noise calendoscopio becoming the first source for the optical sound. Year following the stereoscope invented, perfected by Brewster. In February 1838  in  London he filed the patent of telegraph, after dedicating his improvement and possible applications. Finally in 1869 invented a device used to measure with precision the resistance known as BRIDGE OF WHEATSTONE.



  
  Documents

 
  1845 Patent English Wheatstone and Cooke, 6 May 1845
 
1855 An account of some experiments made with the submarine cable of the electric telegraph Mediterranean by Charles Wheatstone, March 29, 1855
 
1855 Einige versuche mit der für den elektrischen telegraphen in mittelmeer bestimmten submarinen kabel July 1855
Annalen der Physik  und chemie  Annalen der Physik und Chemie