William Fothergill Cooke (Ealing1806- Farnham, Surrey25 June1879) was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Ealing is an area in west London, in the London Borough of Ealing. ... 1806 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Farnham is a small town (pop. ... June 25 is the 176th day of the year (177th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 189 days remaining. ... 1879 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 _ October 19, 1875) was the British inventor of many innovations including the English concertina an early form of microphone the Playfair cipher (named for Lord Playfair, the person who publicized it) and the Wheatstone bridge. ... The electrical telegraph is a telegraph that uses electric signals. ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...
He was knighted in 1869. 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...
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Munro's Hero's of The Telegraph, Appendix, Chapter III http://arthurwendover.com/arthurs/munro/htgrf10.html
Cooke, on the other hand, declared that his sole object was to make a fortune from the scheme.
Mr Cooke was in charge at Camden Town, while Mr Robert Stephenson and other gentlemen looked on; and Wheatstone sat at his instrument in a dingy little room, lit by a tallow candle, near the booking-office at Euston.
They awarded to Cooke the credit of having introduced the telegraph as a useful undertaking which promised to be of national importance, and to Wheatstone that of having by his researches prepared the public to receive it.
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