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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 Hero's 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
1806 births | 1879 deaths | English inventors | Telecommunications history
"William Fothergill Cooke"