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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.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /projects/bluetelephone/html/wheatstone.html (1634 words)

	IEEE-USA Today's Engineer
		A Wheatstone bridge is an instrument used to measure an unknown electrical resistance by balancing two legs of a bridge circuit, one leg of which includes the unknown component.
		Sir Charles Wheatstone was born on 2 February 1802 in the village of Barnwood in the United Kingdom.
		Wheatstone was knighted in 1868 for his “great scientific attainments and of his valuable inventions.” He received many other honors and degrees, in recognition of his work in myriad fields.
	www.todaysengineer.org /2005/Oct/history.asp (754 words)

	HOST - Wheatstone
		Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875), one of the most renowned scientists of the 19th century, experimented with acoustics, optics, electricity and, significantly, the telegraph.
		Charles Wheatstone was born in Gloucester on February 1802 to William and Beata Wheatstone.
		Wheatstone was the first person to show an understanding of the visual intricacies of spatial perception and it is his principles shown in the invention of the stereoscope which led to further development in binocular vision.
	www.kcl.ac.uk /depsta/iss/library/speccoll/host/wheatstone.html (2568 words)

	Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wheatstone's device of the revolving mirror was afterwards employed by Foucault and Fizeau to measure the velocity of light.
		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.
		Wheatstone's next great invention was the automatic transmitter, in which the signals of the message are first punched out on a strip of paper, which is then passed through the sending-key, and controls the signal currents.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/wheatstone.html (6523 words)

	stereoscopy.com - FAQ
		Sir Charles Wheatstone was born on February 6th, 1802, in Gloucester, Gloucestershire, England and died on October 19th, 1875, in Paris, France.
		Though most associate Brewster with the invention, it was Sir Charles Wheatstone who, in June 1838, gave an address to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the phenomena of binocular vision.
		Wheatstone's grave is in the 5th row, left behind the gravestone marked "Rebecca Bernard" and directly left of a tilted dark gravestone of Cornelius Ward, Ann Ward and Richard Tillstone.
	www.stereoscopy.com /faq/wheatstone.html (886 words)

	Wheatstone, Sir Charles - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		WHEATSTONE, SIR CHARLES [Wheatstone, Sir Charles], 1802-75, English physicist and inventor.
		A pioneer in telegraphy, he was coinventor with Sir W. Cooke of an electric telegraph (patented 1837) and inventor of many other devices, including an automatic transmitter, an electric recording apparatus, and an automatic telegraph.
		He is known also for his research on light (color vision and spectra), sound, and electricity; he popularized a method for the measurement of electrical resistance using a network now known as the Wheatstone bridge.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-wheatsto.html (244 words)

	Charles Wheatstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was a British scientist and inventor of many scientifical breakthroughs of the Victorian era, including the English concertina, the stereoscope (a device for displaying three-dimensional images), and the Playfair cipher (an encryption technique).
		Wheatstone's device of the revolving mirror was afterwards employed by Léon Foucault and Hippolyte Fizeau to measure the velocity of light.
		Wheatstone further invented the automatic transmitter, in which the signals of the message are first punched out on a strip of paper, which is then passed through the sending-key, and controls the signal currents.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sir_Charles_Wheatstone (4515 words)

	Sir Charles Wheatstone - The IET
		Sir Charles Wheatstone was born near Gloucester on 6 February 1802.
		Sir Charles is most famous for two instruments: the Cooke-Wheatstone telegraph and the Wheatstone bridge.
		Wheatstone also made important contributions to the measurement of the velocity of electricity and light and the development of ciphers (he was the inventor of the 'Playfair' code).
	www.iee.org /TheIEE/Research/Archives/Histories&Biographies/Wheatstone.cfm (330 words)

	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.
	www.geocities.com /CapeCanaveral/8341/biograf.htm (665 words)

	Connected Earth: Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1802-1875) : a man with many strings to his bow
		Charles Wheatstone was a musical instrument maker who also made major improvements to the telegraph.
		Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) never claimed to have invented it, but he did more than anyone else to invent uses for it.
		Wheatstone never focused on any one area but always worked on a range of projects including typewriters, electromagnetic clocks, pitch measuring devices, and his other major invention - the concertina.
	www.connected-earth.com /Galleries/Pioneersandpersonalities/W/Wheatstone/index.htm (258 words)

	Sir Charles Wheatstone Uses Paper Tape to Store Data
		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.
		Unsuspectingly, Sir Charles had also provided the American public with a way to honor their heroes and generally have a jolly good time, because used paper tapes were to eventually become a key feature of so-called ticker-tape parades.
		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.
	www.maxmon.com /1857ad.htm (625 words)

	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.
	www.nndb.com /people/932/000100632 (923 words)

	BRT Lcomotives
		Sir Charles Wheatstone was born in Gloucester in 1802.
		Wheatstone was the first to determine the velocity of electric waves in metallic conductors and one of the first to recognise the practical measurement of resistance - the 'Wheatstone Bridge' - which is still in use today.
		Wheatstone will be remembered in the telecomms field for his work on the electric tele-graph and his patents on the 2 and 5 needle telegraphs.
	www.samhallas.co.uk /railway/brt_locos.htm (1194 words)

	Sir Charles Wheatstone - Comments
		Mon 19th Jul 2004 at 10:26 PM I've just discovered that Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) was born in a house not 100 yards from my own.
		Sir Charles made a number of important contributions to science.
		Now, since Sir Charles is an important figure in scientific history, you'd think the powers that be would have put some kind of plaque on the wall of his birthplace.
	www.foamcow.com /comments.php?id=5 (187 words)

	Sir Charles Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Charles was born in Barnwood, Gloucester 27th February 1802 and died in Paris 1875.
		Yet, by teaching himself from books, Wheatstone was able to master the natural sciences and foreign languages to become a learned gentleman.
		In the time of our gracious Queen Victoria, he was one of the most eminent people in the Empire, and yet, apart from engineers, there are but a few in Britain who know of the achievements he made in the fields of physics, engineering, communications and music.
	dspace.dial.pipex.com /town/lane/xt12/wheatstone/index.htm (224 words)

	Sir Charles Wheatstone - Concertina.net Discussion Forums
		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.
	www.concertina.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=1630 (321 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Wheatstone,
		Wheatstone, Sir Charles WHEATSTONE, SIR CHARLES [Wheatstone, Sir Charles], 1802-75, English physicist and inventor.
		A pioneer in telegraphy, he was coinventor with Sir W. Cooke of an electric telegraph (patented 1837) and inventor of many other devices, including
		It was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1829.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Wheatstone, (302 words)

	Classic papers on stereoscopy
		This has the merit that although the brain is being seemingly wasted by millions of cells attending to the same task, when minor damage occurs to the brain it continues to be unaffected because there are always other channels that can deliver the required impression.
		In 1838, Wheatstone not only anticipated modern neurological knowledge by refuting that two identical images are simply overlapped, but devised an ingenious experiment to prove his point.
		Beyond this, Wheatstone made an exact study of the geometry - using mathematical structures such a regular cube or the frustrum of a pyramid.
	wehner.org /3d/index.htm (689 words)

	The Wheatstone Bridge
		The fundamental concept of the Wheatstone Bridge is two voltage dividers, both fed by the same input, as shown to the right.
		In its basic application, a dc voltage (E) is applied to the Wheatstone Bridge, and a galvanometer (G) is used to monitor the balance condition.
		Sir Charles Wheatstone invented many uses himself, and others have been developed, along with many variations, since that time.
	www.play-hookey.com /dc_theory/wheatstone_bridge.html (626 words)

	The Wheatstone English Concertina
		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 (15).
		Wheatstone used a similar rectangular body and simple brass levers with integral brass-capped buttons, stamped with their note-names, in common with the design of the earliest German 'press-draw' diatonic 10 and 20 key concertinas, and fitted his version with leather hand-straps on raised metal hand-bars.
	www.hobgoblin.com /info/wayne.htm (11266 words)

	History
		Stereoscopy was invented by English physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838.
		Wheatstone then created a viewing instrument for representing three-dimensional figures from presenting two perspective projections on two retinas and wrote, “I therefore propose that it be called a Stereoscope, to indicate its property of representing solid figures.” This mirror stereoscopic viewer required both paired pictures to be reversed laterally.
		In June 1838, Sir Charles Wheatstone gave an address to the Royal Scottish Society of Arts on the phenomena of binocular vision.
	www.unc.edu /~kabode/History.htm (244 words)

	DIY Calculator :: Paper Tapes and Punched Cards
		Sir Charles was a busy man. Amongst other things, he also invented the accordion in 1829 (following which, presumably, he didn’t have too many friends left) and three-dimensional photographs in the form of his Stereoscope in 1838.
		Wheatstone's first telegraph made use of five wires, each of which was used to drive a pointer at the receiver to indicate different letters.
		As was discussed in the previous topic, the first telegraph machines were invented in 1837 by Sir Charles Wheatstone in England and Samuel Finley Breese Morse in America.
	www.diycalculator.com /popup-h-paper.shtml (4114 words)

	History of the Telephone part 3
		In one of Wheatstone's first acoustic experiments investigating the variation of distances and how those distances would effect sound, he attached a stretched a string to a steel bow and connected the bow to a soundboard of the piano through a glass rod nearly two meters long.
		After Wheatstone's studies of vibrations through solid bodies he creates his most famous instrument the(5) "enchanted lyre" or the acoucryphone (Greek for "hearing a hidden sound").
		At one point Henry is invited to join Sir Charles Wheatstone in a telegraph experiment, which is conducted in the basement of King's College.
	www.ilt.columbia.edu /projects/bluetelephone/html/part3.html (2166 words)

	C. Wheatstone and Co.
		Brief overview of Wheatstone and Co. business history by its last manager, perhaps a draft with a view to use in a catalogue or similar publication.
		As was Wheatstone’s invariable practise, the Chidley system is called simply the “Wheatstone Duet” (as the Maccann system had also been styled previously), and there is no mention of the fact that the keyboard layout has been changed—apart from the evidence of the keyboard diagram.
		BBC programme on the history and music of the concertina, focusing on its inventor Sir Charles Wheatstone as a somewhat belated recognition of his bicentenary in 2002.
	www.concertina.com /wheatstone (2104 words)

	Stereoscope
		The first patented stereoscope was invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1838.
		Wheatstone had experimented with simple stereoscopic drawings in 1832, several years before photography was invented.
		However, Wheatstone's stereoscope was not as popular as a later version, made by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
	courses.ncssm.edu /gallery/collections/toys/html/exhibit01.htm (335 words)

	History of Stereo Photography
		It was Sir Charles Wheatstone who in 1833 first came up with the idea of presenting slightly different images to the two eyes using a device he called a reflecting mirror stereoscope.
		The invention of the Brewster Stereoscope by the Scottish scientist Sir David Brewster in 1849 provided a template for all later stereoscopes.
		Wheatstone was the first to demonstrate stereopsis using a crude stereo viewing device.
	www.arts.rpi.edu /~ruiz/stereo_history/text/historystereog.html (632 words)

	A History of Photography, by Robert Leggat: WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wheatstone started his working life as a musical instrument maker an was the inventor of the concertina.
		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.
	www.rleggat.com /photohistory/history/wheatsto.htm (164 words)

	Charles Wheatstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
	www.softdata.co.uk /gloucester/wheats.htm (203 words)

	Wheatstone's Discovery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		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.
	www.psy.vanderbilt.edu /faculty/blake/rivalry/Wheatstone.html (244 words)

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