The earliest known chord keyboard was part of the " five-needle " telegraph operator station, designed by Wheatstone and Cooke in 1836, in which any two of the five needles could point left or right to indicate letters on a grid.

* 1837 – The first commercial use of an electrical telegraph is successfully demonstrated by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone on July 25, 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

William Cooke and Professor Charles Wheatstone learned of the Wilhelm Weber and Carl Gauss electromagnetic telegraph in 1833, and reached the stage of launching a commercial telegraph prior to Morse, despite starting later.

Morse then traveled to Europe seeking both sponsorship and patents, but in London discovered that Cooke and Wheatstone had already established priority.

Only the United Kingdom ( with its extensive overseas empire ) kept the needle telegraph of Cooke and Wheatstone.

In 1836 an American scientist, Dr. David Alter, invented the first known American electric telegraph, in Elderton, Pennsylvania, one year before the Cooke and Wheatstone and the Morse telegraphs.

The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-developed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, and entered use on the Great Western Railway in Britain.

It was patented in the United Kingdom in 1837, and was first successfully demonstrated by Cooke and Wheatstone on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone introduced their working telegraph in 1839.

Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system.

The first commercial electrical telegraph was co-invented by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone.

Cooke and Wheatstone patented it in May 1837 as an alarm system, and it was first successfully demonstrated on 25 July 1837 between Euston and Camden Town in London.

At creation the company purchased all the patents Cooke and Wheatstone had obtained to date.

* Cooke and Wheatstone Telegraph

" This is approximately three months before Cooke would meet Wheatstone, with whom he would develop the world's first perfected commercial electric telegraph.

These various points of interest, and the fact that Cooke himself signed the same frontis page as that of Ritchie and Wheatstone, not one, but several times as well-all substantiates the very strong connection that Cooke had with Professor William Ritchie.

" During the arbitration proceedings between William Fothergill Cooke and Charles Wheatstone, the latter who was co-patentee with Cooke on the telegraph in England, Frederick Kerby acted as Cooke's key witness and gave testimony for the eventual published record of the proceedings, which currently were made available as a two part reprint in May 2011, by the University of Michigan.

Through Faraday and Roget, Cooke was introduced to Charles Wheatstone, who prior, in 1834, had already presented to the Royal Society an account of his experiments on the velocity of electricity.

Cooke and Wheatstone went into partnership in May 1837 ; Cooke would handle the business side.

Cooke had solicited the company on 27 June 1837, some two weeks after Cooke and Wheatstone had been granted their first telegraph patent and came to work-out installing a trial system on the Stephenson line.

In January 1956, a select committee was formed that examined more than 200 potential sites before Camp Cooke was chosen, essentially for the same characteristics the Army found desirable in 1941.

Cambourne Cricket Club was formed in 2003 by Jason Clatworthy and Paul Cooke but did not begin playing competitive cricket until 2006 due to delays to the delivery and maturity of playing facilities.

No. 2 Group, commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel S. A. Cooke, was formed from the 13th King's and divided into five independent columns, two of which ( Nos 7 and 8 ) were commanded by majors from the battalion.

Within four years, Cooke had formed SAR Records and signed the quintet to the label.

Smith Barney & Co. was formed in 1938 through the merger of Charles D. Barney & Co. and Edward B. Smith & Co .. Charles D. Barney & Co., a New York and Philadelphia based firm, was founded by Charles D. Barney in 1873 following the failure of its predecessor Jay Cooke & Company.

Cooke, Troughton & Simms was a British instrument-making firm formed in 1922 by the merger of T. Cooke & Sons and Troughton & Simms.

Cooke formed American Cablevision in the 1960s and acquired several cable television companies.

When he left Rogers ' employ, Cooke formed a partnership with Charles Danforth.

He and Amos Starr Cooke had later formed the mercantile firm of Castle & Cooke.

In 1966 a group of sports entrepreneurs, led by Jack Kent Cooke and including Lamar Hunt and Steve Stavro, formed a consortium known as the North American Soccer League with the intention of forming a professional soccer league in North America.

In 1966 a group of United States and Canadian sports entrepreneurs, led by Jack Kent Cooke, formed the United Soccer Association with the intention of organising a professional soccer league.

In 1998, Cooke Optics was a new company formed following a buy-out of the Optical division of Taylor-Hobson.

In 1884 with £ 20 of savings he entered a partnership with Ernest Claremont, a friend who contributed £ 50, and they started a business making domestic electric fittings in a workshop in Cooke Street, Hulme, Manchester called F H Royce and Company.

He would begin an expansion of both radio stations and newspapers in various Ontario locations in partnership with fellow Canadian, Jack Kent Cooke.

Hawes is claimed to have made the first arrangement for the partnership between Sir William Fothergill Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone in 1837, although other sources claim such introductions were made through Peter Mark Roget, examiner in physiology in the University of London.

Castle & Cooke was founded in 1851 as a partnership between Samuel Northrup Castle and Amos Starr Cooke as a department store that sold farm tools, sewing equipment, and medicine.

Athelhampton's commercial interests including some pubs and restaurants in Dorset are run by a partnership between Patrick & Andrea Cooke, the present owners, and Owen Davies.

The Cooke triplet is a photographic lens designed and patented ( patent number GB 22, 607 ) in 1893 by Dennis Taylor who was employed as chief engineer by T. Cooke & Sons of York.

Despite the fact that the Cooke design was patented in 1893 it seems that the use of achromatic triplet designs in astronomy appeared as early as 1765.

In England, Cooke became fascinated by electrical telegraphy in 1836, four years after Morse, but with greater financial resources.

Cooke abandoned his primary subject of anatomy and built a small electrical telegraph within three weeks.

* 1839-The first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and entered use on the Great Western Railway.

" Finite authentication is presented with comparative authentication holograph exemplars, which all prove that William Fothergill Cooke is the father of electrical binary computer internet communications and is in fact the primary individual who created the first perfected commercial digital electrical communications system on Earth, still in use today.

* William Fothergill Cooke ( 1806 – 1879 ), co-inventor of the Cooke-Wheatstone electrical telegraph