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Cooke and Wheatstone Develop Needle Telegraph
- When
- 1837
- Where
- unknown
Cooke and Wheatstone co-developed a needle telegraph system in 1837, using needles on a board to point to letters.
By 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone had co-developed a telegraph system which used a number of needles on a board that could be moved to point to letters of the alphabet. This system was the first commercial needle telegraph and the most widely used of its type.
Sources
- Electrical telegraph Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-04
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