Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English inventor William Fothergill Cooke and...
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wires. The first commercial system, and the most widely used needle telegraph, was the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, invented in 1837. The second category...
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sound telegraph, in which the signals were given by the strokes of a bell, was also patented by Cooke and Wheatstone in May of that year. Wheatstone's remarkable...
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With Charles Wheatstone, Cooke produced a much improved design. This was taken up by several railway companies. Cooke's Electric Telegraph Company, formed...
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the world's first public telegraph company. The equipment used was the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, an electrical telegraph developed a few years earlier...
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bridge Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph Wheatstone, New Zealand, a locality in the Canterbury region Wheatstone Glacier, in Antarctica Wheatstone LNG Wheatstone...
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Telegraphy (redirect from Telegraph)
century. It was first taken up in Britain in the form of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, initially used mostly as an aid to railway signalling. This...
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Utility pole (redirect from Telegraph Post)
electrical telegraph on a commercial basis. With Charles Wheatstone he invented the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph and founded the world's first telegraph company...
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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...
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ISBN 0880222972. Single-needle telegraph instrument with Cooke and Wheatstone code marked on the dial and two-note endstops Cooke and Wheatstone style single-needle...
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the telegraph in Exeter Hall. This demonstration caused serious concern to rival telegraph developers William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, especially...
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reject the electrical telegraph. After the Morse system was rejected in 1839, Foy investigated the Cooke–Wheatstone telegraph in use in England. Foy...
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1844) and the Cooke and Wheatstone one-needle telegraph (from 1843). A few two-signal-wire systems lingered on; the Cooke and Wheatstone two-needle system...
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assistance of Charles Wheatstone, developed the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph. The needle telegraph instrument suggested by Wheatstone, the battery invented...
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Signalling block system (section Telegraph block)
probably in 1839 when a Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was installed in the Clay Cross Tunnel of the North Midland Railway. The telegraph instruments were replaced...
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Telegraphy in the United States (redirect from Telegraph in United States history)
Europe lead inventors to create electrical telegraph systems, such as the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph in England. They invented complex systems with...
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Unbalanced line (section Telegraph lines)
Some early telegraph systems, such as Schilling's 1832 experimental needle telegraph and the 1837 Cooke & Wheatstone five-needle telegraph used by British...
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computer. The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, first commercially successful electric telegraph, is designed by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill...
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Electric held the patents for the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph. The name of the company refers to the fact that their telegraph system did not require batteries...
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and Birmingham Railway conducted trials using a Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph to direct signalling and in 1841 held a conference to propose a uniform...
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stations and started simultaneously with the convoy departing from the terminus, the timing coordinated by an early example of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph...
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Cooke invents a mechanical telegraph. 1837 with Charles Wheatstone invents the Cooke and Wheatstone needle telegraph. 1838 the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph...
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Samuel Morse (category Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences)
the needle telegraph of Cooke and Wheatstone. In 1858, Morse introduced wired communication to Latin America when he established a telegraph system in...
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The Wheatstone system was an automated telegraph system that replaced a human operator with machines capable of sending and recording Morse code at a...
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learned that Cooke and Wheatstone were using poles for their lines in England and decided to follow their lead. Installation of the lines and poles from...
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Submarine communications cable (redirect from Underwater telegraph cable)
and heavier cables are used for shallow-water sections near shore. After William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had introduced their working telegraph in...
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Absolute block signalling (redirect from Block telegraph)
History of the Telegraph Companies in Britain between 1838 and 1868: 3. Cooke and Wheatstone". Distant Writing. Vanns 2012, p. 17. Cooke, William Fothergill...
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Wharncliffe Viaduct (category Grade I listed railway bridges and viaducts)
early electric telegraph system for use in running the railway. In 1838 he persuaded Sir Charles Wheatstone and William Fothergill Cooke to install their...
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Pavel Schilling (category Telegraph engineers and inventors)
telegraph was never used as such, but it is partly the ancestor of the Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph, a system widely used in the United Kingdom and...
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Semaphore (section Optical telegraph)
and numbers, called the Morse code, enabling text-based transmissions. In 1837, the British inventors William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone...
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