Charles Wheatstone

Background

An English scientist and inventor.

Contribution

With William Cooke, patented and commercialized the first practical electric telegraph in Britain (1837), used on the railways.

Associated inventions

• The Electric Telegraph

Collaborators & contemporaries

• William Fothergill Cooke
• Samuel Morse
• Alfred Vail

Sources & further reading

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• Encyclopædia Britannica — technology & biography topic articlesEncyclopædia Britannica · Encyclopedia
• Science Museum Group Collection & topic articlesScience Museum Group (UK) · Museum

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