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53 Mr. Cooke states, that within three weeks after he had seen Professor Möncke's telegraph, he had got made, partly at Frankfort, a similar one, but with three needles, with which he could produce twenty-six signals.

He came to London on the 22nd of April, 1836. There he applied himself, as he says, almost night and day, to the making of his so-called mechanical instrument, worked by the attraction of an electro-magnet, which in January, 1837, he submitted to several of the leading gentlemen connected with the Liverpool and Manchester railway, proposing its adoption in the long tunnel close to Liverpool, which descends from Edgehill to the station in Lime-street, but this proposal was not followed out.

Having twice consulted Dr. Faraday, Cooke, by the advice of Dr. Roget, visited, on the 27th February, 1837, Professor Charles Wheatstone at his residence, in Conduit, street, and was soon after taken by him to his rooms in King's College.

The result of Cooke's acquaintance with Wheatstone was, that, in May, 1837, they resolved to unite their efforts in endeavouring to introduce the use of telegraphs on a large scale in England.