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Wheatstone

noun
1.
English physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875).  Synonym: Sir Charles Wheatstone.



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"Wheatstone" Quotes from Famous Books



... possible to quote here all the researches undertaken with the same purpose, to which are more particularly attached the names of S.W. Wilkins, Wheatstone, and H. Highton, in England; of Bonetti in Italy, Gintl in Austria, Bouchot and Donat in France; but there are some which cannot be ...
— The New Physics and Its Evolution • Lucien Poincare
... Bandolines their hair. You should see 'em at it, betwixt trains, Bandolining away, as if they was anointing themselves for the combat. When you're telegraphed you should see their noses all a-going up with scorn, as if it was a part of the working of the same Cooke and Wheatstone electrical machinery. You should hear Our Missis give the word, "Here comes the Beast to be Fed!" and then you should see 'em indignantly skipping across the Line, from the Up to the Down, or Wicer Warsaw, ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 • Various


Words linked to "Wheatstone" :   inventor, physicist, artificer, discoverer, Wheatstone bridge, Sir Charles Wheatstone


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