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Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS FRSE (/ˈwiːtstən/; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875), was an English scientist and inventor of the Victorian era, his contributions...

Clive (2011-10-13). "How it was: Paper tapes and punched cards". EE Times. Roberts, Steven. "3. Cooke and Wheatstone". Distant Writing: A History of the...

system, and the most widely used needle telegraph, was the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, invented in 1837. The second category consists of armature...

invented by Sir Charles Wheatstone and constructed for him by optician R. Murray in 1832. Herbert Mayo shortly described Wheatstone's discovery in his book...

rate. The system included a perforator, which prepared punched paper tape called a Wheatstone slip, a transmitter that read the tape and converted the symbols...

Charles Wheatstone, who published his ideas in his paper "On Binocular Vision", in the Philosophical Transactions for 1852. Wheatstone's paper stimulated...

The Playfair cipher or Playfair square or Wheatstone–Playfair cipher is a manual symmetric encryption technique and was the first literal digram substitution...

Charles Wheatstone proposed it, in another paper for the Royal Society, for measuring resistance in electrical circuits. Although Wheatstone presented...

Foster as a variant on the Wheatstone bridge. He first described it in his 1872 paper "On a Modified Form of Wheatstone's Bridge, and Methods of Measuring...

century. It was first taken up in Britain in the form of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, initially used mostly as an aid to railway signalling. This...

Mechanics Magazine, who introduced him to Sir Charles Wheatstone. Bain demonstrated his models to Wheatstone, who, when asked for his opinion, said "Oh, I shouldn't...

batteries and power supplies. Charles Wheatstone's 1843 rheostat with a metal and a wooden cylinder Charles Wheatstone's 1843 rheostat with a moving whisker...

Babbage's friend Charles Wheatstone commissioned Ada Lovelace to translate Menabrea's paper into English. She then augmented the paper with notes, which were...

improved fantascope to be fitted with a stereoscope. Wheatstone had suggested using photographs on paper of a solid object, for instance a statuette. Plateau...

Manchester in September 1861. September 1861. pp. xxxix–xl. Williamson, A.; Wheatstone, C.; Thomson, W.; Miller, W. H.; Matthiessen, A.; Jenkin, Fleeming (September...

the division of current in parallel circuits (now attributed to Charles Wheatstone), and the inverse square law of variation of electric force with distance...

Charles Wheatstone, Werner von Siemens and Samuel Alfred Varley. Varley took out a patent on 24 December 1866, while Siemens and Wheatstone both announced...

contrived and explained the precession of a spinning top. In 1851, Charles Wheatstone described an apparatus that consists of a vibrating spring that is mounted...

assistance of Charles Wheatstone, developed the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph. The needle telegraph instrument suggested by Wheatstone, the battery invented...

resistance to change. This resistance change, usually measured using a Wheatstone bridge, is related to the strain by the quantity known as the gauge factor...