William Fothergill Cooke

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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.

He was knighted in 1869.

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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