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 William Fothergill Cooke
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| Born | 4 May 1806 Ealing |
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| Died | 25 June 1879 Farnham, Surrey |
| Known for | Electrical telegraph |
Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Lewis Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, in 1846.
He was knighted in 1869.
See also
Further reading
- Cooke, William Fothergill (1895). Extracts from the Private Letters of the Late Sir William Fothergill Cooke, 1836 - 39. London: E. and F. N. Spon.
External links
- Munro, John. "Heroes of The Telegraph".- See Appendix, Chapter III
- Biography of Sir William Fothergill Cooke
- Biography from the Institution of Engineering and Technology
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