K/PP107/7/7

Dated 1959-1960. From Various papers including biographical material relating to the life and career of Charles Wheatstone, and patents, 1757-1975.

Manuscript copy of historical narrative entitled 'The invention of the electric telegraph', by D A Bayliss, Balliol College, Oxford, Jane Willis Kirkaldy Essay Prize-winner, University of Oxford, 1959, detailing in part the career of Charles Wheatstone. With related correspondence.