NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Cooke, William Fothergill, 1806-1879 NRA: Cooke, Sir William Fothergill (1806-1879) Knight Electrical Engineer DNB: Cooke, Sir William Fothergill (1806–1879), developer of electric telegraphy LBT ID: WiCooke1879 VIAF ID: 62332988 LOC ID: n88255627 | B/BAP: 1806-05-04 DIED: 1879-06-25 |
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Educated at Durham School, Edinburgh University, and on the Continent, he was an inventor
and founder of the Electric Telegraph Company in 1846. | |