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Sir #CharlesWheatstone was an English #Polymath & self-taught #Physicist #Inventor, who made important contributions to #Physics, #Electricity, #Acoustics & #Optics. Appointed Professor of Experimental #Philosophy at #KingsCollegeLondon in 1834, he applied the #ScientificMethod Sir #IsaacNewton defined during the #AgeofEnlightenment, to early 19th CE philosophical problems.
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#CharlesWheatstone was born in 1802 to a family of music-sellers & makers of instruments. Aged 14, he was apprenticed to his Uncle at 436 Strand, London but preferred to study books instead. In later life, he applied his research into #Acoustics to improve musical Instrument design & he invented the #Concertina, which #WheatstoneAndCo still manufactures.
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