Item Type: Wheatstone Papers

Summary

Full Description: A first edition of “The Electric Telegraph – a social and economic history, by Jeffrey Kieve, 1973, David and Charles, Newton abbot, 1973”. Early chapters include much about Wheatstone, the dispute with Cooke, and later developments. The telegraphy sections of the Collection (NC.1.1.2 and NC.1.2.1) include many original papers, pamphlets and devices related to Wheatstone & Cooke’s telegraph. Central to the Cooke - Wheatstone dispute are the original first editions in the Collection of the pamphlets published by Cooke and by his family, pressing home Cooke’s claims to be the inventor of the telegraph: See items NC.1.2.1-001 [http://www.concertinamuseum.com/NC10201-001.htm] and NC.1.2.1-025 [http://www.concertinamuseum.com/NC10201-025.htm]

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 1.2.7-011