Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE (/ˈwiːtstən/; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs... 46 KB (6,384 words) - 14:14, 29 April 2024 |
Wheatstone bridge was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie (sometimes spelled "Christy") in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone... 11 KB (1,373 words) - 00:48, 3 May 2024 |
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... 77 KB (9,170 words) - 18:19, 5 May 2024 |
Wheatstone may refer to: Cape Wheatstone, in Antarctica Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875), a British scientist and inventor, eponymous for Wheatstone bridge... 557 bytes (87 words) - 02:47, 23 October 2023 |
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... 17 KB (1,985 words) - 06:53, 5 March 2024 |
novelist Charles Dickens, and the celebrated wit Sydney Smith. The scien- tists included telegraph inventor Charles Wheatstone, geol- ogists Charles Lyell... 7 KB (768 words) - 12:51, 10 February 2024 |
first commercially successful electric telegraph developed by Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802–1875) and Sir William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879). 1837: Pitman... 160 KB (16,528 words) - 22:00, 7 April 2024 |
their fields, including Sir Charles Lyell (lawyer and geologist), Sir Charles Wheatstone (best known for the Wheatstone bridge), Robert Bentley Todd... 229 KB (20,897 words) - 00:40, 1 May 2024 |
1879) was an English inventor. He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May... 7 KB (775 words) - 12:06, 4 May 2023 |
electronic telecommunications include co-inventors of the telegraph Charles Wheatstone and Samuel Morse, numerous inventors and developers of the telephone... 88 KB (9,255 words) - 13:45, 6 May 2024 |
rheoscope as a detector of electrical currents was coined by Sir Charles Wheatstone about 1840 but is no longer used to describe electrical instruments... 19 KB (2,345 words) - 11:33, 15 April 2024 |
Playfair cipher, a manual encryption technique invented in 1854 by Charles Wheatstone Playfair Cricket Annual Playfair Race Course Lyon Playfair Library... 917 bytes (159 words) - 04:58, 14 October 2023 |
Brian Bowers (2001). Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS: 1802-1875 (2nd ed.). IET. pp. 207–208. ISBN 978-0-85296-103-2. Wheatstone (1836). "On the prismatic... 23 KB (2,635 words) - 13:01, 1 April 2024 |
Sir Charles Wheatstone, Werner von Siemens and Samuel Alfred Varley. Varley took out a patent on 24 December 1866, while Siemens and Wheatstone both... 32 KB (3,814 words) - 03:31, 6 May 2024 |
Hallett Peninsula (redirect from Cape Wheatstone) Discovered in January 1841 by Sir James Clark Ross who named it for Sir Charles Wheatstone, English physicist and inventor. 72°27′S 170°16′E / 72.450°S 170... 11 KB (1,748 words) - 06:33, 20 April 2024 |
variation. C. A. Seydel Söhne Harmonica (1880) Symphonium (c.1830) by Charles Wheatstone M. Hohner Trumpet Call Harmonica in C (1906) Harmonica (rear) and... 4 KB (280 words) - 01:40, 12 August 2023 |
best-known bridge circuit, the Wheatstone bridge, was invented by Samuel Hunter Christie and popularized by Charles Wheatstone, and is used for measuring... 5 KB (643 words) - 12:56, 8 March 2024 |