DocumentCode
1444813
Title
The genesis of the Wheatstone bridge
Author
Ekelöf, Stig
Volume
10
Issue
1
fYear
2001
fDate
2/1/2001 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
37
Lastpage
40
Abstract
In the paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society in which Wheatstone described the DC bridge that now bears his name, he attributes the idea of the bridge to S.H. Christie. French and German translations published the following year and possibly prepared from a preprint of the paper do not carry this attribution and this may explain why the bridge does not bear Christie´s name. This paper discusses the work of both Christie and Wheatstone and why the term Wheatstone bridge and not Christie bridge is used
Keywords
bridge circuits; electric resistance measurement; history; DC bridge; S.H. Christie; Wheatstone bridge; electric resistance measurement;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Engineering Science and Education Journal
Publisher
iet
ISSN
0963-7346
Type
jour
DOI
10.1049/esej:20010106
Filename
905717
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