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Patent Filing
- When
- May 1837
- Where
- London
Cooke and Wheatstone secured a patent in May 1837 for giving signals and sounding alarms in distant places by means of electric currents transmitted through electric circuits.
The patent was taken out within a month of their partnership formation. It covered improvements in giving signals and sounding alarms in distant places by means of electric currents transmitted through electric circuits. The system used needles on a board to point to letters of the alphabet.
Sources
- William Fothergill Cooke Wikipedia, revision of 2026-08-29
- Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph Wikipedia, revision of 2025-05-24
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