Records created and used by the Electric and International Telegraph Company [1853]-1905

Wheatstone, Charles, Sir, 1802-1875

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Physicist. Fellow of the Royal Society. From the description of Papers. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84865311 At 21 he began business in London as a musical instrument maker and carried out experiments on sound and optics. Professor of experimental physics at King's Colege, London 1834. F. R. S., 1836. He made many inventions and suggested the stereoscope and spectrum analysis. He collaborated with Sir William Fothergill Cooke in producing and improving electric telegraph ...

Electric and International Telegraph Company; 1855-1870; telegraph company

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The Electric and International Telegraph Company, popularly known as 'the Electric', was formed by a merger of the Electric Telegraph Company and the International Telegraph Company in 1855. This placed it is a strong position because it had purchased the patents for various systems designed by William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone and had a near monopoly over the wayleave rights to construct telegraph wires along railway lines. By 1868 it was the largest telegraph compan...

Cooke, William Fothergill, 1806-1879

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Electric and International Telegraph Company, 1855-1870

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International Telegraph Company

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The International Telegraph Company was formed by the Electric Telegraph Company in 1852. The ETC obtained a concession from the Dutch Government in 1852 to lay wires from Orfordness, on the east coast of England, to Scheveningham in Holland and then to The Hague. However, because the Dutch Government objected to the Holland line of the new submarine telegraph cable being made by the ETC, the International Telegraph Company was formed. The new company was managed by the ETC with ETC...

Electric Telegraph Company

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The Electric Telegraph Company, the first electric telegraph company in Britain, was provisionally registered in September 1845 and officially incorporated as a company by Parliament in 1846. It was set up by William Fothergill Cooke and Joseph Lewis Ricardo to work the patents of Cooke and Wheatstone. The ETC's major growth period coincided with the expansion of the railways in the 1840s by providing electric communication to the railways' signal operators. The company grew rapidly...