Key Information
Reference code
K/PP107/1/5/1-5
Title
Correspondence with Windsor Castle, 1860 and 1960
Date(s)
- 1960 (Creation)
- 1860 (Creation)
Level of description
Item
Extent
1 file
Scope and content
Correspondence between Charles [Carl] Ruland [1834-1907], Librarian, Windsor Castle, on behalf of Albert (1819-1861), Prince Consort, and Charles Wheatstone, describing Prince Albert's suggestion that enclosed columns of water might act as a conducting medium for underwater electric telegraph communications in preference to submarine cables, 1860. Correspondence between Dr Edward James Burge, Department of Physics, King's College London, and the librarian of Windsor Castle, relating to Prince Albert's proposal, 1960. With copies and photographic negatives of the original letter.