Charles Vincent Walker
1812–82
Electrical engineer. Secretary, London Electrical Society, 1843. Editor of Electrical Magazine, 1845–6. Electrician to the South-Eastern Railway Company, 1845–82. Instrumental in the development of submarine telegraphy. Member of the British Meteorological Society, 1850; secretary, 1857–64; president, 1869–70. FRS 1855.
Sources
DNB
Quarterly Journal of the Meteorological Society 9 (1883): 99–100.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
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