Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone:
- Title
- Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone:
- Description
- This exhibition covers Professor Sir Charles Wheatstone’s life and work as a scientist, inventor and businessman, including his involvement in the invention of telegraphy and the stereoscope.
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- Contributor
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King’s College London Libraries and Collections
- Type
- Online Exhibition
- Date
- 2022
- Subject
- History of Technology
- Geographical Area
- Britain and Ireland
- ABC Telegraph patented by Wheatstone and Cooke in 1840. It was the first commercial dial telegraph. Also known as the 'Communicator', this telegraph ushered in the age of private telegraphic communication. (Ref: K/PP107/11)
