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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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Charles
Wheatstone
was
born
near
Gloucester,
in
February,
1802.
His
father
was
a
music-seller
in
the
town,
who,
four
years
later,
removed
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.
Charles,
the
second
son,
went
to
a
village
school,
near
Gloucester,
and
afterwards
to
several
institutions
in
London.
One
of
them
was
in
Kennington,
and
kept
by
a
Mrs.
Castlemaine,
who
was
astonished
at
his
rapid
progress.
From
another
he
ran
away,
but
was
captured
at
Windsor,
not
far
from
the
theatre
of
his
practical
telegraph.
As
a
boy
he
was
very
shy
and
sensitive,
liking
well
to
retire
into
an
attic,
without
any
other
company
than
his
own
thoughts.
When
he
was
about
fourteen
years
old
he
was
apprenticed
to
his
uncle
and
namesake,
a
maker
and
seller
of
musical
instruments,
at
436,
Strand,
London;
but
he
showed
little
taste
for
handicraft
or
business,
and
loved
better
to
study
books.
His
father
encouraged
him
in
this,
and
finally
took
him
out
of
the
uncle's
charge.
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