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WHEATSTONE, Charles (1802-1875)

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Born: 1802

Died: 1875

Title: Sir

Editorial Description

experimenter with electricity; developed the electric telegraph; FRS, 1836; knighted, 1868; M Roy Inst, London, and the Br Assn; prof of experimental physics at King's Coll, London; one of the earliest apostles of COMTE in Britain; joined the LONDON PHREN SOC in 1825 and was active in it in the 1830s and 1840s (VP 1843-4). (DNB; DSB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1185.1 — 1185.1 "Some Remarks on Dreaming, Somnambulism, and other States of Partial Activity of the Cerebral Faculties," LANCET, 31 Mar 1832: 919-23. (Read at a meeting of the LONDON PHREN SOC, 30 Jan 1832.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	1185.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	348
Printed page	343
Database ID	3274

Original Transcription

1185. WHEATSTONE, Sir Charles (1802-75), experimenter with electricity; developed the electric telegraph; FRS, 1836; knighted, 1868;
M Roy Inst, London, and the Br Assn; prof of experimental physics
at King's Coll, London; one of the earliest apostles of COMTE in
Britain; joined the LONDON PHREN SOC in 1825 and was active in
it in the 1830s and 1840s (VP 1843-4). (DNB; DSB)