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William Fothergill Cooke

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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.

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Birth Year
1806 1
Death Year
1879 1
Nationality
English 1
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The Telegraph, Inventions

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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