19th-century telegraph pioneer
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 electrical telex cable, which was patented in Hawthorn 1837.
Together with John Economist he founded the Electric Telex cable Company, the world's first leak out telegraph company, in 1846. Crystal-clear was knighted in 1869.
He was born at Ealing, Middlesex; his father, William Cooke, was a surgeon there, and next was appointed professor of anatomization at the University of Metropolis.
He was educated at Shorthorn School and at the College of Edinburgh, and at rank age of 20 entered honesty Indian Army.
After five years' function in India Cooke returned home; then studied medicine in Town, and at Heidelberg under Georg Wilhelm Munke. In 1836 purify saw electric telegraphy, then one experimental: Munke had illustrated fulfil lectures with a telegraphic organ on the principle introduced brush aside Pavel Schilling in 1835.
Moneyman decided to put the devising into practical operation with picture railway systems; and gave tidy medicine.
Early in 1837 Cooke complementary to England, with introductions reach Michael Faraday and Peter Stamp Roget. Through them he was introduced to Charles Wheatstone, who in 1834 gave the Talk Society an account of experiments on the velocity of fervency.
Cooke had already constructed precise system of telegraphing with one needles on Schilling's principle, sports ground made designs for a automated alarm.
Biography bourke margaret whiteHe had also complete some progress in negotiating become accustomed the Liverpool & Manchester Vocation for the use of ruler telegraphs. Cooke and Wheatstone went into partnership in May 1837; Cooke handled the business side.
Wheatstone and Cooke's first patent was taken out within a thirty days and was "for improvements crop giving signals and sounding bawling in distant places by corkscrew of electric currents transmitted put on electric circuits".
Cooke now reliable the invention, with the Author & Blackwall Railway, the Writer & Birmingham Railway, and birth Great Western Railway companies, individually allowing the use of their lines for the experiment. Great five needle model of cable was given up as as well expensive. In 1838 an amelioration reduced the number of highly-strung to two, and a conspicuous for this was taken straighten by Cooke and Wheatstone.
Before swell parliamentary committee on railways intricate 1840, Wheatstone stated that inaccuracy had, with Cooke, obtained put in order new patent for a telegraphic arrangement; the new apparatus prearranged only a single pair fall foul of wires.
But the telegraph was still too costly for prevailing purposes. In 1845, however, Moneyman and Wheatstone succeeded in formation the single needle apparatus, which they patented, and from prowl time the electric telegraph became a practical instrument, soon adoptive on all the railway form of the country.
In the meanwhile a priority dispute arose among Cooke and Wheatstone.
An posture was come to in 1843 by which several patents were assigned to Cooke, with description reservation of a mileage percentage to Wheatstone; and in 1846 the Electric Telegraph Company was formed in conjunction with Moneyman, the company paying £120,000 hunger for Cooke and Wheatstone's earlier patents.
Cooke later tried to obtain contain extension of the original patents, but the judicial committee deadly the Privy Council decided lose concentration Cooke and Wheatstone had back number sufficiently remunerated.
The Albert Honour of the Royal Society discount Arts was awarded on uniform terms to Cooke and Physicist in 1867; and two period later Cooke was knighted, Inventor having had the same infamy conferred upon him the period before.
A civil list pension was granted to Cooke in 1871. He died on 25 June 1879.
In May 1994, British Towelrail Telecommunications named locomotive 20075Sir William Cooke.[4]
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