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Much of this text originally came from the book Heroes of the Telegraph by John Munro, available at Project Gutenberg: [1]. Lupo 14:03, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Much of this also appears to have been lifted from: http://chem.ch.huji.ac.il/~eugeniik/history/wheatstone.html

Comapre the first sentances of this entry with the first sentances from the huji site: "Charles Wheatstone was born on 6 February 1802, at Barnwood Manor House, Barnwood, near Gloucester. His father was a music-seller in the town, who, four years later, moved to 128, Pall Mall, London, and became a teacher of the flute. He used to say, with not a little pride, that he had been engaged in assisting at the musical education of the Princess Charlotte." - 140.98.210.243 15:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

kaleidophone instead of kaleidoscope -- on friday, 11th of august 2006 i found the 'kaleidoscope' mentioned as an invention of wheatstone - an obvious mistake, as it was the 'kaleidophone' he invented. see more info i.e. http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/library/speccoll/host/wheatstone.html

there is a lot of trustable info on wheatstone's relation to music and musical instruments online; i'd suggest to add at least some of these sites to the link list - 85.180.181.2 19:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The text you quoted is from Heroes of the Telegraph, a public domain project gutenberg etext, as cited above. It just so happens that other cites have also copied from the etext and have not been as diligent as Wikipedia in attributing their sources. -- Gmaxwell 18:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The article looks as if large portions have been copied from elsewhere, particularly since there seems to be no one person who has been actively editing it over a long period of time. I hope that it has not been copied, since having to sift through what is original and what is not isn't a task that will attract new participants. - Astrochemist (talk) 12:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Five Needle Telegraph

The five needle telegraph could display 20 letters, leaving out D-J-Q-U-X-Z.

Tabletop (talk) 03:27, 23 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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 The article looks as if large portions have been copied from elsewhere, particularly since there seems to be no one person who has been actively editing it over a long period of time.  I hope that it has ''not'' been copied, since having to sift through what is original and what is not isn't a task that will attract new participants. - [[User:Astrochemist|Astrochemist]] ([[User talk:Astrochemist|talk]]) 12:30, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
+== Five Needle Telegraph ==
+The five needle telegraph could display 20 letters, leaving out D-J-Q-U-X-Z.
+[[User:Tabletop|Tabletop]] ([[User talk:Tabletop|talk]]) 03:27, 23 September 2008 (UTC)