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Facts

Born February 6, 1802 • Gloucester • England
Died October 19, 1875 (aged 73) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Copley Medal (1868)
Inventions stereoscope • concertina • Playfair cipher

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Wheatstone, detail of a chalk drawing by Samuel Laurence; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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