William Fothergill Cooke was an English inventor and entrepreneur who, with Charles Wheatstone, co-invented the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph, patented in May 1837. Cooke supplied the commercial and administrative drive behind the partnership while Wheatstone supplied the science, a division that eventually produced a bitter priority dispute between the two men, settled by arbitration. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Co-developed the electric telegraph.
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Co-inventor, with Charles Wheatstone, of the rival British telegraph system patented in May 1837, independently of Samuel Morse's American system.
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Their collaboration was not a happy one because their objectives differed. Cooke was an inventor and entrepreneur who wished to patent and commercially exploit his inventions.
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