Born at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester. Knighted 30 Jan. 1868. Died Paris. Inventor of things such as the English concertina and the stereoscope but best known for the Wheatstone bridge which measures electrical resistance. Also a major figure in the development of telegraphy. Through his 1847 marriage he was uncle to Arthur and Oliver Heaviside and influenced their careers in the direction of telegraphy.
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Sir Charles Wheatstone
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Charles Wheatstone
Sir Charles Wheatstone, 1802 - 1875, scientist and inventor, lived here. Grea...
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Mathematician and astronomer. Argued that the Sun, not the Earth, was the centre of the universe.
1 memorial
Guglielmo Marconi
Born Bologna. Arrived in London, with his mother, in 1896 to patent his method of communication without wires. In 1897 he established the Wireless Telegraph & Signal Company, which survived und...
4 memorials
George Bentham
Botanist. Born in Stoke, near Plymouth. His family moved to St Petersburg in 1805, where he becam proficient in several languages. In France he studied at the universities of Tours and Montpelier. ...
1 memorial
John Dalton
Chemist, physicist, and meteorologist. Born Cumberland into a Quaker family. Achieved a high level of education early and became a teacher of science at a Quaker college. He made meteorological mea...
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Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford
Inventor and adventurer. Born Woburn, Massachusetts. Having spied for the British in America he moved to England in 1776, was knighted by King George III, moved to Germany where he gained the titl...
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Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, Lord Fairhaven
Known as Huttleston (and he sometimes spelt this as Huddleston - tut, these toffs, huh!). Born Fairhaven, Massachusetts, eldest son of Urban Hanlon Broughton and his wife Cara. Created 1st Baron ...
2 memorials
Royal Tank Regiment
Tanks were first used in combat at Flers, France, on 15th September 1916. Heavy Section and Heavy Branch Machine Gun Corps, the Tank Corps, Royal Tank Corps and Royal Tank Regiment.
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