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Charles Wheatstone (1802-1875) William Cooke, he patented a fail-way telegraph in 1837, and, developing an idea of Samuel Christie's, devised the Wheatstone bridge, an electrical network for measuring resistance.

Originally a musical-instrument maker, he invented the harmonica and the concertina.

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Charles Wheatstone was a English physicist and inventor.

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	British electrical engineers
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	Pre-computer cryptographers
	Telecommunications history
	Academics of King's College London
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	Recipients of the Copley Medal
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	1802 births
	1875 deaths
	British cryptographers
	Royal Medal winners

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