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<p>[[Image:Cooke and Wheatstone electric telegraph.jpg|thumb|center|A Cooke and Wheatstone electric Telegraph from 1837, now in the London Science Museum.]]</p> | <p>[[Image:Cooke and Wheatstone electric telegraph.jpg|thumb|center|A Cooke and Wheatstone electric Telegraph from 1837, now in the London Science Museum.]]</p> | ||
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|Date=1/12/1837 | |||
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|Description=In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone received the first English patent for an electric telegraph, and sent the first message from London (Euston Station) to Camden Town. They opened the first commercial telegraph line in 1839 between Paddington and West Drayton. | |||
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|Description=In 1837, William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone received the first English patent for an electric telegraph, and sent the first message from London (Euston Station) to Camden Town. They opened the first commercial telegraph line in 1839 between Paddington and West Drayton. | |||
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London, England. On 12 June 1837 William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone received a patent on electric telegraphy; this was the first English patent for an electric telegraph. On 4 September the first message was sent on a line Cooke and Wheatstone built from London (Euston Station) to Camden Town. Also on 4 September S.F.B. Morse demonstrated electric telegraphy over a distance of 1700 feet at New York University.
