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Wheatstone, Sir Charles, (1802-1875), Knight Physicist

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Surname: Wheatstone
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: Charles
Gender: Male
Date: 1802-1875
Biography: ODNB link for Wheatstone, Sir Charles (1802-1875) Knight Physicist
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P149015 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P30271 )
Online related resources Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Sir Charles Wheatstone
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
corresp and papers
King's College London: College Archives
KCLCA Wheatstone
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
2
c1832-70: papers and drawings
Science Museum Library and Archives
WHEAT
See Annual Return 1999
3
papers
Royal Society
4
1837-65: drawings (c100) rel to electric telegraph
Science Museum Library and Archives
5
1839-43: letters (11) to Charles Babbage
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 37191-201 passim
6
1837-46: corresp with WF Cooke
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives
SC Mss 7
NRA 38782 Cooke
7
corresp with Sir JFW Herschel
Royal Society
HS
NRA 8803
8
1842-48: corresp with Sir Francis Ronalds
Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Archives
SC Mss 1.3, 1.4
NRA 38778 Ronalds
9
letters (10)
Royal Institution of Great Britain
NRA 9522
10
c1837-1870: corresp; list of books on acoustics; scientific drawings; notes with equations and diagrams
King's College London: College Archives
K/PP107 7/11
Related record creators
  Record creator Description of relationship Dates Category of relationship
1
King's College Hospital Medical School
Professor of Experimental Philosophy, King's College London, 1834-1875
Associative