Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875)
- Wheatstone, Charles, (1802-1875)
- Date:
- mid 19th century - late 19th century
- Reference:
- MS.8007/7
- Part of:
- Miscellany: British, mainly 19th-20th centuries
- Archives and manuscripts
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Letters and notes from Charles Wheatstone, 22 Apr 1855-18 Feb 1873, and 5 undated items (MS.8007/7/17-21).
Recipients include a Mr Brooke, Abbé Moigne, Sir John[?], Mr Ward, Mr Murray, Mr Miller, Dr Radcliffe and E Cowper. Some letters concern Wheatstone's electric telegraph developments and instruments and other scientific research, notably an argument with Sir David Brewster over who was first to use refracting prisms for stereoscopes (MS.8007/7/7); a dispute with Mr Morse regarding electric telegraph innovations (MS.8007/7/8); instructions on how to restore writing effaced by time (MS.8007/7/2); notes on the 'new photometer' (MS.8007/7/18).
Three items have newspaper cuttings pasted on: 'Wheatstone's new domestic telegraph' (MS.8007/7/1), information from an Italian newspaper on 'Carlo Weastone' (MS. 8007/7/17), and an obituary of Wheatstone (MS.8007/7/15).
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