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Extracts from the Private Letters of the Late Sir W. F. Cooke: Relating to the Invention and Development of the Electric Telegraph

Extracts from the Private Letters of the Late Sir W. F. Cooke: Relating to the Invention and Development of the Electric Telegraph

Clark, Latimer
Cooke, William Fothergill

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Technology

Biographies GeneralTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 1108052746
ISBN13: 9781108052740
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 21 2013
Pages: 104
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Originally a maker of wax anatomical models, William Fothergill Cooke (1806-79) became aware of the new electric telegraph while he studied anatomy in Germany. Hoping initially for a return of perhaps a hundred pounds from the English railway companies, he abandoned his studies and turned his attention to the commercial development of the technology, which, though demonstrable in laboratory conditions, was still little understood. Because the process relied on secrecy and many different clockmakers and engineers, it soon became so fraught that Cooke almost gave up before its completion. However, after receiving the encouragement of Michael Faraday and joining forces with Charles Wheatstone, Cooke finally brought his plans to fruition and eventually set up the Electric Telegraph Company in 1846. First published in 1895, this book includes a selection of his private letters, written as he worked and often movingly uncertain, as well as a short memoir.

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