RefNo | HS/18/144 |
Level | Item |
Title | Letter, from Charles Wheatstone to Sir John Herschel, dated at Swan Inn, Windsor |
Creator | Charles Wheatstone |
Date | 23 August 1825 |
Description | Autograph letter signed by sender, with annotations by recipient. Appreciates John Frederick William Herschel's interest in and encouragement of Charles Wheatstone's experiments. Describes new experiments to elucidate theory of undulatory motion of sound and light. Invented 'kaleidophone' to display paths of vibrating rods. Hopes John Frederick William Herschel can confirm these results. |
Language | English |
Extent | 3pp |
Format | Manuscript |
Place origin | Swan Inn, Windsor, Berkshire |
Origin coordinates | 51.4791, -0.6095 |
AccessStatus | Open |
URLDescription | Also available on Epsilon |
URL | https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel7942
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Fellows associated with this archive
Code | PersonName | Dates |
NA7559 | Wheatstone; Sir; Charles (1802 - 1875); physicist | 1802 - 1875 |
NA8238 | Herschel; Sir; John Frederick William (1792 - 1871); astronomer | 1792 - 1871 |