biography
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Cooke, Sir William Fothergill
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1806–79)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in London, UK. He studied medicine, took up telegraphy, and in 1837 became Sir Charles Wheatstone's partner. In 1845 they patented the single needle apparatus. He received the Albert Gold Medal (1867), and was knighted in 1869. |
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