• Thumbnail for William Fothergill Cooke
    Sir William Fothergill Cooke (4 May 1806 – 25 June 1879) was an English inventor. He was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone...
    7 KB (775 words) - 21:01, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph
    Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English inventor William Fothergill Cooke and...
    25 KB (3,437 words) - 21:12, 6 August 2024
  • politician William Cooke, MP for Lewes William Wilcox Cooke (died 1816), Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court William Fothergill Cooke (1806–1879)...
    2 KB (315 words) - 04:36, 28 February 2023
  • Thumbnail for Utility pole
    customers. The first poles were used in 1843 by telegraph pioneer William Fothergill Cooke, who used them on a line along the Great Western Railway. Utility...
    48 KB (5,669 words) - 21:30, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Needle telegraph
    In England, William Fothergill Cooke started building telegraphs, initially based on Schilling's design. With Charles Wheatstone, Cooke produced a much...
    20 KB (2,798 words) - 13:38, 29 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Charles Wheatstone
    appeared at times to take more credit than he was due. As well as William Fothergill Cooke, Alexander Bain and David Brewster, mentioned above, these also...
    47 KB (6,398 words) - 16:15, 17 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Semaphore
    enabling text-based transmissions. In 1837, the British inventors William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone obtained a patent for the first commercially...
    16 KB (1,731 words) - 08:58, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Electric Telegraph Company
    in 1846 by William Fothergill Cooke and John Ricardo. It was the world's first public telegraph company. The equipment used was the Cooke and Wheatstone...
    22 KB (3,070 words) - 07:54, 10 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Victorian era
    communication and transportation develop significantly. In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone invented the first telegraph system. This...
    64 KB (6,607 words) - 09:17, 16 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Telecommunications
    electrical telegraph was demonstrated by English inventor Sir William Fothergill Cooke and English scientist Sir Charles Wheatstone. Both inventors viewed...
    88 KB (9,252 words) - 17:02, 3 September 2024