Author:

Wheatstone, Charles Sir 1802-1875  Search this

Donor:

Dibner, Bern DSI  Search this

Burndy Library DSI  Search this

Author:

Frankland, Edward Sir 1825-1899  Search this

Lubbock, J. W (John William) 1803-1865  Search this

Milne-Home, David 1805-1890  Search this

Moigno abbé (François Napoléon Marie) 1804-1884  Search this

Burndy Library Manuscripts Collection (Smithsonian Libraries) DSI  Search this

Physical description:

22 items : illustrations, portrait

Type:

Mixed archival materials

Manuscripts (documents).)

Sources

Date:

1830

1830-1879

Notes:

Additional material includes 2 photographic portraits ; one perhaps is of Wheatstone

Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 684

Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI

Summary:

Twenty-one A.L.S. (1830-1875), one in French, to various correspondents including Frankland (1860), Home (1843), Lubbock (1845, 1851), and Moigno (1852), and Doc. S. (1879[!] July 28, Paris) concerning the Institut de France, Academie des Sciences. Topics include photography electro-magnetism, telegraphy, scientific apparatus, the Atmospheric Railway, and the stereoscope

Topic:

Electromagnetism  Search this

Photography  Search this

Science--History  Search this

Scientific apparatus and instruments  Search this

Stereoscope  Search this

Technology--History  Search this

Telegraph  Search this

History  Search this

Science  Search this

Technology  Search this

Call number:

MSS 001558 A

Data Source:

Smithsonian Libraries

EDAN-URL:

edanmdm:siris_sil_194842