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Wilhelm Eduard Weber

Born on October 4, 1804

222

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Wilhelm Eduard Weber ( WEB-er or VEY-ber; German:; 24 October 1804 – 23 June 1891) was a German physicist and, together with Carl Friedrich Gauss, inventor of the first electromagnetic telegraph.

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