William Fothergill Cooke
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| William Fothergill Cooke | |
 William Fothergill Cooke
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| Born | May 4, 1806 Ealing |
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| Died | June 25, 1879 Farnham, Surrey |
| Known for | electrical telegraph |
Sir William Fothergill Cooke (Ealing May 4, 1806 - Farnham, Surrey June 25, 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.
[edit] External links
- Munro's Heroes of The Telegraph, Appendix, Chapter III http://arthurwendover.com/arthurs/munro/htgrf10.html
- Biography of SIR WILLIAM FOTHERGILL COOKE
- Biography from the Institution of Electrical Engineers
- general information on telecommunications
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