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The Not So Honorable History of The Wheatstone Bridge

In my last video, on the history of Ohm’s law, I talked about part of how it was made famous was when a man named Charles Wheatstone attributed Ohm’s law to help him create what is now called the “Wheatstone Bridge” in 1843. However, I quickly learned that this “bridge” was actually created 10 years earlier than Wheatstone by a man named Samuel Christie, something that Wheatstone admitted in his paper. This caused my spidey sense to tingle: why did Christie make this bridge and why did it get na...