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		Charles Wheatstone was born near Gloucester (A city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn).
		Besides transmitting sounds to a distance, Wheatstone devised a simple instrument for augmenting feeble sounds, to which he gave the name of 'Microphone.' It consisted of two slender rods, which conveyed the mechanical vibrations to both ears, and is quite different from the electrical microphone (additional info and facts about electrical microphone) of Professor Hughes.
		In 1827, Wheatstone introduced his 'kaleidoscope (An optical toy in a tube; it produces symmetrical patterns as bits of colored glass are reflected by mirrors) ', a device for rendering the vibrations of a sounding body apparent to the eye.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone
		Wheatstone thought that his uncle who was in the music publishing business would not publish the work if he knew it was his, so Charles Wheatstone gave the two songs to a known musician named Omera.
		Wheatstone used the string instruments for his "telemusic" pieces because it was easy for him to transmit sound over those devices as opposed to the flutes in which the only vibration was in a column of air.
		Wheatstone is well known in the scientific community of England for the ingenious series of experiments to determine the velocity of electricity.
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	Encyclopedia: Charles Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Wheatstone The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years.
		He was a major figure in the development of telegraphy, improved upon the Wheatstone bridge originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, and was a Fellow of the Royal Society.
		A Wheatstone bridge is a measuring instrument invented by Samuel Hunter Christie in 1833 and improved and popularized by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1843.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone - Biography
		Charles Wheatstone was born on 6 Feb 1802, at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester.
		Charles Wheatstone was interested in musical instruments and their acoustics throughout his life: Parallel to these musical researches, Wheatstone was working variously on typewriters, electromagnetic clocks, pitch measuring devices, and of course, the concertina and its prototypes and improvements, as well as the electric telegraph which became his major life's work.
		Wheatstone was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in l836, a chevalier of the legion of honour in 1855 and a foreign associate of the Academie des Sciences in 1873.
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		Charles Wheatstone and William appear to have maintained their father and uncle's trade in woodwind and of general musical instrument sales and manufacture (Ref 6).
		Charles Wheatstone's first patent, no. 5803 on 'Construction of Wind Instruments', was granted on 19 June 1829, and describes various forms of the Symphonium, patents its keyboard layout, and suggests the addition of flexible bellows to the instrument.
		Wheatstone was granted two musical patents during this period of active involvement with the concertina: that of 1836, in collaboration with the seraphine-maker John Green, claims a wide range of 'new and improved' free reed instruments including the wind piano and the Table-top concertina (Ref 15).
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	Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Wheatstone was born on 6 February 1802, at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester.
		Charles and his brother William took over their uncle Charles's musical instrument business on his death in autumn 1823, when Charles was 21 and William about 18 years of age.
		Sir Charles Wheatstone is most famous for this device but never claimed to have invented it - however, he did more than anyone else to invent uses for it, when he "found" the description of the device in 1843.
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	Adventures in CyberSound: Wheatstone, Charles
		It consisted of a mimic lyre hung from the ceiling by a cord, and emitting the strains of several instruments--the piano, harp, and dulcimer.
		In 1828, Wheatstone improved the German wind instrument, called the MUND HARMONICA, till it became the popular concertina, patented on June 19, 1829 The portable harmonium is another of his inventions, which gained a prize medal at the Great Exhibition of 1851.
		Bain further accused Wheatstone of stealing his idea of the electro-magnetic printing telegraph; but Wheatstone showed that the instrument was only a modification of his own electro-magnetic telegraph.
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	Charles Wheatstone
		Wheatstone's education was carried on in several private schools, at which he appears to have displayed no remarkable attainments, being mainly characterized by a morbid shyness and sensitiveness that prevented him from making friends.
		On the death of his uncle in 1823 Wheatstone and his brother succeeded to the business; but he never seems to have taken a very active part in it, and he virtually retired after six years, devoting himself to experimental research, at first chiefly with regard to sound.
		Wheatstone's physical investigations are described in more than thirty-six papers in various scientific journals, the more important being in the Philosophical Transactions, the Proceedings of the Royal Society, the Comptes rendus and the British Association Reports.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone Scientist 1802 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Charles Wheatstone was born above his family's shop at 52/54 Westgate Street and at the age of 14 was apprenticed to his uncle, a musical instrument maker in London.
		Charles became fascinated with the physics of both sound and electricity, and having invented the concertina in 1829 went on to perfect a stereoscope for viewing photographs (which became invaluable for 20th Century aerial reconnaissance) and devices for measuring the speed of electricity and light.
		He is also remembered for the Wheatstone bridge - used to measure electrical resistance - and the " Magic Harp " which inspired Alexander Graham Bell to invent the telephone.
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	BBC - History - Charles Wheatstone (1802 - 1875) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born into a musical family, it was sound that first captured Wheatstone's imagination.
		By the time Wheatstone wrote his last paper on sound he had entirely categorised the harmonics as they applied to wind instruments, and established himself as a major scientific figure.
		He was appointed professor of experimental philosophy at Kings College London in 1834, and invented a machine which used rotating mirrors and eight miles of wire to measure the speed of electricity.
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		Charles Wheatstone and William appear to have maintained their father and uncle's trade in woodwind and of general musical instrument sales and manufacture (6).
		Wheatstone was granted two musical patents during this period of active involvement with the concertina: that of 1836, in collaboration with the seraphine-maker John Green, claims a wide range of 'new and improved' free reed instruments including the wind piano and the Table-top concertina (15).
		Wheatstones' final production, developed by their manager Harry Minting upon the resumption of concertina making at the firm after the second world war was the 'May Fair' concertina, a budget range of English and Anglo concertinas aimed at the growing market for concertinas in the British folk dance fraternity.
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	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wheatstone started his working life as a musical instrument maker.
		In his early thirties he became Professor of Experimental Philosophy at Kings College, London, and in 1836 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
		Wheatstone was a member of the Photographic Society and served on its Council.
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	The Wheatstone English Concertina
		Charles and William Wheatstone claim in their 1839 trade directoryen try to be 'piano makers', shortly after this patent, but by1842 are styling themselves 'Concertina Makers'.
		Wheatstones' final production, developed by their manager HarryMinting upon the resumption of concertina making at the firm afterthe second world war was the 'May Fair' concertina, a budget rangeof English and Anglo concertinas aimed at the growing market forconcertinas in the British folk dance fraternity.
		Many of Sir Charles Wheatstone's own examples of his inventionsare now in the Collection, including early prototypes of his electrictelegraph, typewriters, electric clocks, code transmitters, acousticaldevices and prototype concertinas, and the Collection representsone of the most important groups of early Wheatstone equipmentto be found in an independent Museum.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone - Concertina.net Discussion Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The potential impact of the electric telegraph, on whose development he worked in collaboration with Sir William Fothergill Cooke, swiftly brought the physicist and prolific inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone to the notice of Queen Victoria's ministers.
		Lord Palmerston, who had met Wheatstone at a party, was later heard to remark, with some incredulity, that the day was fast approahing when a minister, asked in Parliament about the state of affairs in india, would be able to reply: "Wait a minute.
		It is generally believed Sir Charles was a shy man. I wonder how often he got to a party.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone: Biography of Sir Charles Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wheatstone was the first to introduce and to give practical application to the electric telegraph in England, his experiments having been made, in conjunction with Mr.
		Cooke, when he was quite unaware of the experiments being made about the same time by Professor Morse in America.
		He twice received the Royal Medal at the Royal Society, and in 1868 won the Copley Medal.
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	Wheatstone's Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Sir Charles Wheatstone (1838) gets credit for the first systematic study of rivalry, which can be found in his famous monograph on binocular stereopsis.
		At the moment of change the letter which has just been seen breaks into fragments, while fragments of the letter which is about to appear mingle with them, and are immediately after replaced by the entire letter.
		In this short passage Wheatstone offered several trenchant observations on key aspects of rivalry, including the complete suppression of one of two discordant stimuli, the alternations in dominance between the eyes, the spatial fragmentation of the two images during times of transition, and the dependence of predominance on the physical characteristics of the rival stimuli.
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	Free Reed Magazine
		Free Reed Music is discussing with the Horniman Museum the possibility of a commercial release of their CD ROMs of the images of the entire Collection, together with full cataloguing, historical data and musical examples, as a set of interactive CD ROMs on the Free Reed label.
		A draft Treatment of this subject for a proposed TV programme was prepared by Neil Wayne and John Kirkpatrick in 1994 (the 150th anniversary of Wheatstone's 1844 Concertina patent).
		A distant relative of Sir Charles, Mr Peter Wheatstone, is engaged in genealogical research upon his ancestor, which we hope will be published.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone Uses Paper Tape to Store Data (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		only twenty years after the invention of the telegraph, Sir Charles Wheatstone (the inventor of the accordion) introduced the first application of paper tapes as a medium for the preparation, storage, and transmission of data.
		manner to Sir Charles' telegraph tape, the designers of the early computers realized that they could record their data on a paper tape by punching rows of holes across the width of the tape.
		The pattern of the holes in each data row represented a single data value or character.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Antoine-Louis Barye - Charles VII the Victorious on Horseback c.
		Francisco de Goya - Charles IV of Spain as Huntsman c.
		Charles Carroll of Annapolis 1753-54 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art American
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	AllRefer.com - Sir Charles Wheatstone (Physics, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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		Sir Charles Wheatstone[hwEt´stOn, –stun] Pronunciation Key, 1802–75, English physicist and inventor.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Wheatstone, Sir Charles (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
		Mounting Vision: Charles Eastlake and the National Gallery of London.
		The tramp of a fly's footstep or, the shriek, rattle, and roar of a Victorian sound track.
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	Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), Scientist and inventor
		Prolific inventor; made many improvements to telegraphs, and contributions to acoustics and electrical science; Professor of Experimental Physics, Kings College, London, for 40 years, but disliked teaching and never gave any lectures; also invented the stereoscope, the concertina and the polar clock.
		Sir Charles Wheatstone and his family (Arthur William Frederick Wheatstone; Sir Charles Wheatstone; Florence Caroline Wheatstone; Charles Pablo Wheatstone; Emma Wheatstone)
		The online database contains information on 84,967 works, 44,595 of which are illustrated; the National Portrait Gallery's collection includes over 330,000 works.
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