Wheatstone
Concertina-patenting physicist
Wheatstone refers to Sir Charles Wheatstone, a nineteenth-century English scientist and inventor.
His name survives in technical contexts: the Wheatstone bridge is an electrical circuit for measuring unknown resistances with precision.
He also contributed to the development of the telegraph and stereoscopic imaging, though the bridge that bears his name was actually invented by someone else.
Scientist of matter and energy
- scientistOne who studies nature
- inventorCreator of original devices
- telegraphElectrical message system
- concertinaBellows-driven button instrument
stereoscope · Victorian · London · pioneer · acoustics · optics · encryption · nineteenth-century
Capacity to withstand force
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
- galvanometerMeasures electrical flow strength
potentiometer · resistor · calibration · precision · ohm · ratio · arms · detector
Electrical message system
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- signalMessage-conveying cue
- communicationExchanging ideas or information
railway · patent · electromagnetic · network · cable · operator · messaging
physicist
Scientist of matter and energy
- scientistOne who studies nature
- inventorCreator of original devices
- telegraphElectrical message system
concertina · stereoscope · Victorian · London · pioneer · acoustics · optics · encryption · nineteenth-century · polymath
resistance
Capacity to withstand force
- circuitClosed electrical pathway
- measurementDetermining size or amount
- balanceSteadiness or amount owed
galvanometer · potentiometer · resistor · calibration · precision · ohm · ratio · arms · detector · laboratory
telegraph
Electrical message system
- transmitterSignal-emitting device
- receiverOne who accepts transmission
- signalMessage-conveying cue
communication · railway · patent · electromagnetic · network · cable · operator · messaging
- telegraphytelegraph, Morse code, telegraphy, telegraph key, telegraph line
- Gas fieldsGroningen, Marcellus, Barnett, Fayetteville, Utica
- concertina types
WheatstoneCharles Darwin
Louis Pasteur · Gregor Mendel · Joseph Lister · biologist · naturalist
Wheatstonetheoretical physicist
Scientist modeling physical phenomena abstractly
Michael Faraday · mathematician · natural philosopher · Einstein · Newton
- Wheatstone bridgeCircuit measuring unknown resistance