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William Fothergill Cooke

1806 - 1879

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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 telegraph, which was patented in May 1837. Together with John Ricardo he founded the Electric Telegraph Company, the world's first public telegraph company, in 1846. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Fothergill Cooke has received more than 116,211 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. William Fothergill Cooke is the 376th most popular inventor, the 4,380th most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 62nd most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, William Fothergill Cooke ranks 376 out of 426. Before him are Per Georg Scheutz, Frank Piasecki, Andrew Viterbi, Arunachalam Muruganantham, Margaret E. Knight, and Alfred Carlton Gilbert. After him are Karl Jatho, Wordsworth Donisthorpe, Harold Eugene Edgerton, Kálmán Tihanyi, Barnes Wallis, and Elmer Ambrose Sperry.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1806, William Fothergill Cooke ranks 60. Before him are Jane Pierce, Aristeidis Moraitinis, Pascual Madoz, Blanka Teleki, Christian August Friedrich Peters, and Henry Kellett. After him are Manuel Ignacio de Vivanco, Nathaniel Parker Willis, Leonidas Polk, John B. Floyd, Henry A. Wise, and William P. Fessenden. Among people deceased in 1879, William Fothergill Cooke ranks 61. Before him are Epameinondas Deligeorgis, Edward Blore, Jean Baptiste Boisduval, John Bell Hood, Henry Charles Carey, and Emma Smith. After him are Juan Antonio Pezet, John Lawrence, 1st Baron Lawrence, George Caleb Bingham, Jacob Abbott, Adelardo López de Ayala y Herrera, and John Adams Dix.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Fothergill Cooke ranks 4,380 out of 8,785. Before him are H. J. R. Murray (1868), Daisy Ridley (1992), Emma Kirkby (1949), Neil Bartlett (1932), David Brabham (1965), and Julian Barbour (1937). After him are Richard Eyre (1943), Robert Morison (1620), Marmaduke Pickthall (1875), James Hogg (1770), William Michael Rossetti (1829), and Ernest Dowson (1867).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, William Fothergill Cooke ranks 62. Before him are Joseph Bramah (1748), Robert Whitehead (1823), John Milne (1850), Isaac Pitman (1813), William Friese-Greene (1855), and Kirkpatrick Macmillan (1835). After him are Wordsworth Donisthorpe (1847), Barnes Wallis (1887), John Whitehurst (1713), Roger C. Field (1945), Lawrence Hargrave (1850), and Frank Hornby (1863).

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