Sir Charles Wheatstone 1802 - 1875
- occupation:
- Inventor (optics),
- Scientist,
- Telegraphy pioneer
- Nationality:
- English; British
- born in:
- Barnwood, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom
Associated with various telegraphic invention - some contested - developed the stereoscope and contributed to optical research in polarisation, professor of experimental physics at Kings College, London from 1843