Frontmatter
PREFACE
Contents
LIST OF PUBLICATIONS FROM WHICH THE PAPERS HAVE BEEN EXTRACTED
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND PLATES
New Experiments on Sound
Explanation of the Harmonic Diagram
Description of the Kaleidophone, or Phonic Kaleidoscope
Experiments on Audition
On the Resonances, or Reciprocated Vibrations of Columns of Air
On the Transmission of Musical Sounds through, Solid Linear Conductors, and on their subsequent Reciprocation
On the Figures obtained by strewing Sand on Vibrating Surfaces, commonly called Acoustic Figures
An Account of some Experiments to measure the Velocity of Electricity and the Duration of Electric Light
An account of several new Instruments and Processes for determining the Constants of a Voltaic Circuit
On the Thermo-electric Spark
Description of the Electro-magnetic Clock
Enregistreur électromagnétique pour les Observations Météorologiques
Note sur le Chronoscope électromagnétique
An Account of some Experiments made with the Submarine Cable of the Mediterranean Electric Telegraph
On the position of Aluminum in the Voltaic Series
Télégraphe automatique écrivant
On the Circumstances which influence the Inductive Discharges of Submarine Telegraphic Cables
Description of the Telegraph Thermometer
On a New Telegraphic Thermometer, and on the Application of the Principle of its construction to other Meteorological Indicators
On the Augmentation of the Power of a Magnet by the reaction thereon of Currents induced by the Magnet itself
On a cause of Error in Electroscopic Experiments
Experimental Verification of Bernouilli's Theory of Wind Instruments
Remarks on Purkinje's Experiments
On the Prismatic Decomposition of Electrical Light
Contributions to the Physiology of Vision.—Part the First. On some remarkable, and hitherto unobserved, Phenomena of Binocular Vision
On a singular Effect of the Juxtaposition of certain Colours under particular circumstances
On a means of determining the apparent Solar Time by the Diurnal Changes of the Plane of Polarization at the North Pole of the Sky
Experiments on the Successive Polarization of Light, with the Description of a new Polarizing Apparatus
Note relating to M. Foucault's new Mechanical Proof of the Rotation of the Earth
On Fessel's Gyroscope
On the Formation of Powers from Arithmetical Progressions
Interpretation of an important Historical Document in Cipher
Instructions for the Employment of Wheatstone's Cryptograph
Reed Organ-pipes, Speaking Machines, etc
On the Vibrations of Columns of Air in Cylindrical and Conical Tubes
Index
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Information: The Scientific Papers of Sir Charles Wheatstone , pp. v - x

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139057950 [Opens in a new window]

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Print publication year: 2011

First published in: 1879

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