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Sir Charles Wheatstone FRS : 1802-1875 / Brian Bowers.
Van Pelt Library TK140.W432 B69 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowers, Brian.
- Series:
- History of technology series ; 29.
- IEE history of technology series ; 29
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802-1875.
- Wheatstone, Charles.
- Electrical engineers--England--Biography.
- Electrical engineers.
- England.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 235 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Institution of Electrical Engineers : In association with the Science Museum, [2001]
- Contents:
- 1 An extraordinary fellow 1
- 2 Early life 5
- The Enchanted Lyre 8
- The family business 9
- Part 1 Sound and Light 13
- 3 Researches in sound 15
- First scientific publication 17
- The Royal Institution 20
- The Kaleidophone 22
- Resonance 24
- 4 Musical instrument manufacturer 33
- The transmission of sound 33
- Talking machines 34
- New musical instruments 35
- Teaching musical theory 41
- The wave machine 43
- 5 The stereoscope 45
- Part 2 Electricity 55
- 6 The velocity of electricity 57
- The speed of light 66
- 7 Professor Wheatstone 69
- 8 Researches in electricity 79
- Generators 82
- Electromagnetic engines 85
- Linear motors 95
- Detonating explosives: induction generators 99
- 9 Electrical measurements 101
- Early measuring techniques 103
- The Bakerian Lecture 104
- Part 3 The Telegraph 115
- 10 Early telegraphy 117
- Wheatstone's early telegraph ideas 119
- Cooke's early telegraph ideas 122
- The partnership 124
- Rival inventors 125
- The first telegaph patent 128
- 11 The practical electric telegraph 139
- 'ABC' telegraphs 141
- Dispute and arbitration 145
- Printing telegraphs 148
- The Electric Telegraph Company 151
- 12 Submarine telegraphy 157
- Trials in Swansea Bay 161
- The capacitance of cables 162
- The submarine cable inquiry 163
- 13 The developing telegraph 167
- Codes and ciphers 169
- Chronoscopes 172
- Telemetry 178
- Typewriters 179
- Wheatstone's later telegraphs 180
- Part 4 Sir Charles 185
- 14 Wheatstone at home 187
- Marriage and family 187
- Private life 191
- 15 Later scientific work 195
- New generator designs 196
- Waveforms 199
- The self-excited generator 203
- Miscellaneous science 207
- Adviser to government 210
- 16 The public figure 215
- Wheatstone's correspondence 223
- Wheatstone's scientific papers 223.
- Notes:
- Previous ed.: London : HMSO, 1975.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0852961030
- OCLC:
- 48111113
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