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Sir Charles Wheatstone

(1802-1875), Scientist and inventor

Early 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.

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Sir Charles Wheatstone

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

Sir Charles Wheatstone

by Samuel Laurence
chalk, 1868
NPG 726

Sir Charles Wheatstone

by Antoine Claudet
albumen carte-de-visite, early-mid 1860s
NPG x32952

Sir Charles Wheatstone

by London Stereoscopic & Photographic Company
albumen carte-de-visite, late 1860s
NPG x15440

Sir Charles Wheatstone

by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1871
NPG Ax18209

'Scientists'

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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London

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