Who was the inventor of the Wien bridge in relation to Wilhelm Wien?
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The Wien bridge is an electronic resistive bridge circuit, named after its inventor Max Wien, who was the cousin of Wilhelm Wien, the German physicist who developed Wien's displacement law. The Wien bridge circuit is used to measure the value of an unknown resistance, and can also be used to measure frequency and phase.
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