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Cooke, William Fothergill

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Cooke, William Fothergill (1806–1879)

English engineer. He went into partnership with the physicist and inventor Charles Wheatstone in 1837. They made a special study of railway signals, and in 1845 patented the single-needle apparatus. Cooke formed a company in 1846, and he and Wheatstone received the Albert Gold Medal in 1867.

Cooke was born in Ealing, Middlesex. He studied medicine at Paris and Heidelberg before taking up telegraphy.



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