Cooke and Wheatstone five-needle telegraph
- inventor:
- CHARLES WHEATSTONE and
- William Fothergill Cooke
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Cooke and Wheatstone's earliest (five-needle) telegraph, England, 1837.
Cooke and Wheatstone's earliest (five-needle) telegraph, 1837
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- Category:
- Telecommunications
- Object Number:
- 1876-1272
- type:
- telegraphs
- credit:
- HM Postmaster General
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