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4 unusual facts about Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph


Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph

Cooke and Wheatstone's telegraph played a part in the apprehension of the murderer John Tawell.

Murder suspect John Tawell was apprehended following the use of a needle telegraph message from Slough to Paddington on 1 January 1845.

The Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph was an early electrical telegraph system dating from the 1830s invented by English inventor William Fothergill Cooke and English scientist Charles Wheatstone.

The telegraph arose from a collaboration between William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, best known to schoolchildren from the eponymous Wheatstone bridge.



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