1st Edition
Cooke and Wheatstone And the Invention of the Electric Telegraph
By Geoffrey Hubbard
Copyright 1965
192 Pages
by
Routledge
194 Pages
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Routledge
192 Pages
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Routledge
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Originally published in 1965. Charles Wheatstone collaborated with William Cooke in the invention and early exploitation of the Electric Telegraph. This was the first long distance, faster-than-a-horse messenger. This volume gives an account of the earlier work on which the English invention was founded, and the curious route by which it came to England. It discusses the way in which two such... Read more
- The Speculative Fancy. 2 Three Precursors. 3 Professor Charles Wheatstone. 4 William Fothergill Cooke. 5 The Partnership. 6 A Practical Electric Telegraph. 7 The Patent. 8 From Paddington to West Drayton. 9 The Blackwall Rope. 10 The Seeds of Discord. 11 West Drayton to Slough. 12 The Advertisement of Murder. 13 The Embittered Achievement. 14 The Authorship of the Practical Electric Telegraph. 15 The Later Life of Charles Wheatstone. 16 The Later Life of William Fothergill Cooke. 17 The Passing of the Telegraph
Biography
GEOFFREY HUBBARD
