Talk:Charles Wheatstone
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What is "stephoscope"? Should it be "stethoscope"? But that seems to have been invented by Laennec .....
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Much of this text originally came from the book Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro, available at Project Gutenberg: [1]. Lupo 14:03, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Much of this also appears to have been lifted from: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/wheatstone.html
Comapre the first sentances of this entry with the first sentances from the huji site: "Charles Wheatstone was born on 6 February 1802, at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester. His father was a music-seller in the town, who, four years later, moved to 128, Pall Mall, London, and became a teacher of the flute. He used to say, with not a little pride, that he had been engaged in assisting at the musical education of the Princess Charlotte."
kaleidophone instead of kaleidoscope on friday, 11th of august 2006 i found the 'kaleidoscope' mentioned as an invention of wheatstone - an obvious mistake, as it was the 'kaleidophone' he invented. see more info i.e. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/host/wheatstone.html there is a lot of trustable info on wheatstone's relation to music and musical instruments online; i'd suggest to add at least some of these sites to the link list
- The text you quoted is from Heroes of the Telegraph, a public domain project gutenberg etext, as cited above. It just so happens that other cites have also copied from the etext and have not been as diligent as Wikipedia in attributing their sources. --Gmaxwell 18:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
