| Authorised form of name | Walker; Charles Vincent (1812 - 1882); technical editor and electrical engineer |
| Dates | 1812 - 1882 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Marylebone, Middlesex, London, England |
| Date of birth | 20 March 1812 |
| Place of death | At his residence, 26 Upper Grosvenor Road, Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England |
| Date of death | 24 December 1882 |
| Dates and places | Place of marriage: Ramsgate, England.
Burial: St John and St Matthew, Redhill, Surrey, England. |
| Occupation | Technical editor and electrical engineer |
| Research field | Telegraphy |
| Electricity |
| Engineering |
| Activity | Career:
Drawn to the study of electricity (1838); electrician to the South-Eastern Railway Company (1845); patented apparatus to enable train passengers to communicate with the guard (1866); patented a 'train describer' for indicating trains on a distant dial (1876); died of heart failure.
Memberships:
FRMS (President 1869-1870)
RAS
Meteorological Society |
| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1855 |
| Age at election | 43 |
| Proposer | Edward William Brayley |
| James Whatman |
| Baden Powell |
| John Edward Gray |
| Charles Brooke |
| Henry Parr Hamilton |
| William Tite |
| Peter William Barlow |
| Sam Cartwright |
| Baden Powell |
| William Allen Miller |
| William O'Shaughnessy Brooke |
| John Barlow |
| Charles Wheatstone |
| Wm Alex Mackinnon |
| Jon Pereira |
| William Robert Grove |
| W Snow Harris |
| William Thomas Brande |
| MichaelFaraday |
| James Glaisher |
| George Biddell Airy |
| Richard Sheepshanks |
| Relationships | Parents: Vincent George Anthony Walker (1788/9-1867), a solicitor and later a music and dancing teacher, and Ann, née Blake (1788-1820), his first wife.
Spouse: Susanna Maria Violett (1805-1882), widow of James Violett, (12 May 1846). |
| Published works | RCN 16206 |
| General context | The first person to send a submarine signal on 13 October 1848.
Influential in the development of railway telecommunications.
Invented a device to protect telegraph equipment from atmospheric electricity.
Worked on the improvement of graphite batteries.
The first person to insulate telegraph wires with gutta-percha. |
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| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/57007023 |
| Royal Society code | NA3784 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1855/12 | Walker, Charles Vincent: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Maull/004762 | Walker, Charles Vincent | nd |
| RR/4/141 | Letter from Charles Vincent Walker, on a paper 'On the insulating properties of gutta percha' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 20 June 1860 |
| RR/3/272 | Referee's report by Charles Wheatstone, on a paper 'A system of train-signalling, by which also disabled trains may telegraph for assistance without the aid of portable apparatus' by Charles Vincent Walker | 19 June 1857 |
| RR/4/139 | Referee's report by Charles Vincent Walker, on a paper 'On the insulating properties of gutta percha' by Henry Charles Fleeming Jenkin | 12 July 1860 |
| RR/4/274 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On magnetic storms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker | 21 March 1861 |
| RR/4/277 | Referee's report by John Tyndall, on a paper 'On magnetic calms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker | 15 March 1862 |
| PT/63/7 | Paper, 'Magnetic storms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker | 29 January 1861 |
| PT/64/8/2 | Plate, arrangement of miniature observatory by [Charles Vincent Walker] | 1 February 1862 |
| PT/64/8/1 | Manuscript, 'On magnetic calms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker | 1 February 1862 |
| PT/64/8 | Paper, 'On magnetic calms and earth currents' by Charles V [Vincent] Walker | 1 February 1862 |
| MC/10/321 | Letter from Charles V [Vincent] Walker, Fernside, Red Hill, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, [Secretary of the Royal Society] | 17 December 1875 |
| MC/10 | Volume 10 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | July 1873-1876 |
| RR/4/275 | Referee's report by Humphrey Lloyd, on a paper 'On magnetic storms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker | 15 April 1861 |
| RR/3/273 | Referee's report by William Henry Barlow, on a paper 'A system of train-signalling, by which also disabled trains may telegraph for assistance without the aid of portable apparatus' by Charles Vincent Walker | 9 July 1857 |
| AP/39/20/4 | Unpublished diagrams, circuit of train signalling system by Charles Walker | 9 March 1857 |
| AP/39/20 | Unpublished paper, 'A system of train-signalling, by which also disabled trains may telegraph for assistance without the aid of portable apparatus' by Charles Walker | 9 March 1857 |
| AP/39/20/1 | Unpublished manuscript, 'A system of train-signalling, by which also disabled trains may telegraph for assistance without the aid of portable apparatus' by Charles Walker | 9 March 1857 |
| RR/4/276 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On magnetic calms and earth-currents' by Charles Vincent Walker | 5 April 1862 |
| MC/14/59 | Letter from Warren de la Rue, Portland Place, to [Thomas Henry] Huxley | 1 July 1885 |
| MC/14 | Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1885-1888 |