Charles Wheatstone
1802 - 1875
- Born
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6 February 1802
Gloucester, England
- Died
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19 October 1875
Paris, France
- Nationality
- British
- Gender
- Male
- Date of election for Royal Society fellowship
- 21/01/1836
- Relationships
- Uncle of Oliver Heaviside (FRS 1891)
- Catalogue
- View catalogue entry
Author of
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Unpublished paper, 'Description of the electro-magnetic clock' by Charles Wheatstone
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: AP/23/43 -
Paper, 'On Fessell's [sic] gyroscope' by Charles Wheatstone
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: AP/37/26 -
Paper, 'An account of some experiments made with submarine cable of the Mediterranean electric telegraph' by Charles Wheatstone
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: AP/37/27 -
Paper, 'Note on the position of aluminum [aluminium] in the voltaic series' by Charles Wheatstone
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: AP/37/28 -
Draft letter, signed by J F W Herschel, Charles Wheatstone and Edward Sabine, forwarding the report of the Joint Committee of Physics and Meteorology of the Royal Society
Creator: Charles Wheatstone, Edward Sabine, John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: MM/11/190 -
Paper, 'Contributions to the physiology of vision. Part the second' by Charles Wheatstone
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: PT/43/1
Referee of
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Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'Observations and experiments on the solar rays that occasion heat; with the application of a remarkable property of these rays to the construction of the solar and oxy-hydrogen gas microscopes' by Joseph Bancroft Reade
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/1/193 -
Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'An attempt to account for the discrepancy between the actual velocity of sound in air or vapour, and that resulting from theory' by William Ritchie
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/1/205 -
Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on two papers 'On a peculiar source of deterioration of the magnetic powers of steel bars' by William Sturgeon and 'On the supposed properties of the electric and magnetic fluids' by William Ford Stevenson
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/1/233 -
Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the periodic and non-periodic variations of the temperature at Toronto in Canada, from 1841 to 1852 inclusive' by Edward Sabine
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/2/216 -
Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'An enquiry into some of the circumstances and principles which regulate the production of pictures on the retina of the human eye, with their measure of endurance, their colours and changes' by William Scoresby
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/2/218 -
Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'On the vibrations and tones produced by the contact of bodies having different temperatures' by John Tyndall
Creator: Charles Wheatstone Reference number: RR/2/250
Recipient of
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Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Wheatstone, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/18/149 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Wheatstone, dated at Slough
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/21/146 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Wheatstone, dated at Collingwood
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/22/125 -
Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Wheatstone, dated at Feldhausen
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/4/14 -
Copies of Sir John Herschel's letters to Charles Wheatstone, from 8 September 1835 to 30 June 1849
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/11 -
Copy letter, from John Frederick William Herschel to Charles Wheatstone, dated at Feldhausen
Creator: John Frederick William Herschel Reference number: HS/25/11/1
Most frequently corresponded with
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John Frederick William Herschel
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