Wheatstone bridge
noun
Wheat·stone bridge
ˈ(h)wēt-ˌstōn- 
chiefly British -stən-
: an electrical bridge consisting of two branches of a parallel circuit joined by a galvanometer and used for determining the value of an unknown resistance in one of the branches
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In his writings, Hubbard described the E-meter as a Wheatstone bridge, an electrical circuit designed in 1833 by Samuel Hunter Christie to measure an unknown resistance.
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