William Fothergill Cooke (born May 4, 1806, Ealing, Middlesex, Eng.—died June 25, 1879, Surrey). Colorized portrait of co-inventor who, with Charles Wheatstone (born February 6, 1802 – died October 19, 1875), perfected the world's first commercial digital electric telegraph communications system. Cooke's invention and construction designs for the first Cooke and Wheatstone telegraph systems is documented in his "lost" manuscript journal that has come to be known as "Codex Lipack" - discovered in America in the late 1990's by American historian, archivist and author Richard Warren Lipack and authenticated by its discoverer as executed by Cooke himself in 2011.