- Sir Charles Wheatstone
- nounEnglish physicist and inventor who devised the Wheatstone bridge (1802-1875)• Syn: ↑Wheatstone• Instance Hypernyms: ↑physicist, ↑inventor, ↑discoverer, ↑artificer
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Sir Charles Wheatstone
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Charles Wheatstone — Sir Charles Wheatstone [ˈwiːtstən] (* 6. Februar 1802 in Gloucester; † 19. Oktober 1875 in Paris) war ein britischer Physiker … Deutsch Wikipedia
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Wheatstone, Sir Charles — ▪ British physicist born Feb. 6, 1802, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Eng. died Oct. 19, 1875, Paris English physicist who popularized the Wheatstone bridge, a device that accurately measured electrical resistance and became widely used in… … Universalium
Wheatstone , Sir Charles — (1802–1875) British physicist After a private education in his native city of Gloucester, Wheatstone began business in London as a musical instrument maker (1823). His early scientific researches were in acoustics and optics and his contributions … Scientists
Wheatstone — Charles Wheatstone Sir Charles Wheatstone [ˈwiːtstən] (* 6. Februar 1802 in Gloucester; † 19. Oktober 1875 in Paris) war ein britischer Physiker. Lebe … Deutsch Wikipedia
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Wheatstone bridge — [hwēt′stōn΄, wēt′stōn΄; ] chiefly Brit [, wēt′stən, hwēt′stən] n. [after Sir Charles Wheatstone (1802 75), Eng physicist] 1. a divided bridge circuit (see BRIDGE1, n. 11) having four resistances in series, used to find the value of an unknown… … English World dictionary
