Sir Charles Wheatstone
(1802-1875), Scientist and inventorEarly Victorian Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 7 portraits
Prolific inventor; made many improvements to telegraphs, and contributions to acoustics and electrical science; Professor of Experimental Physics, Kings College, London, for 40 years, but disliked teaching and never gave any lectures; also invented the stereoscope, the concertina and the polar clock.
by William Brockedon
chalk, 1837
NPG 2515(84)
Sir Charles Wheatstone and his family
by Antoine Claudet
stereoscopic daguerreotype, arched top, 1851-1852
NPG P154
by Samuel Laurence
chalk, 1868
NPG 726
by Antoine Claudet
albumen carte-de-visite, early-mid 1860s
NPG x32952
by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s
NPG x15440
by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1871
NPG Ax18209
published by Hughes & Edmonds
albumen print, published 1876
NPG Ax132901
Related People
- Florence Caroline Turle (née Wheatstone) (daughter)
- Arthur William Frederick Wheatstone (son)
- Charles Pablo Wheatstone (son)
- Emma Wheatstone (wife)
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