Cooke, WF

Japanese: Cooke,W.F.(英語表記)CookeWF
Cooke, WF

…In 1834, he used a rotating mirror to measure the speed of electricity in a wire with three discharge gaps, and this technique was later used to measure the speed of light. In his research on telegraphy, he invented the magnetic needle telegraph with William Fothegill Cooke (1806-79) and conducted an experiment on undersea telegraphy in 1844. In 1843, he invented the variable resistor to verify Ohm's law, and popularized the Wheatstone bridge invented by Samuel Hunter Christie (1784-1865). …

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…1834年に三つの放電空隙をもつ電線中の電気の伝播(でんぱ)速度を回転鏡で測定したが,この技術はその後光速の測定に利用された。電信の研究ではクックWilliam Fothegill Cooke(1806‐79)とともに,磁針電信機を発明したほか,44年には海底電信の実験を行った。1843年にはオームの法則の検証のため可変抵抗器を発明し,またクリスティーSamuel Hunter Christie(1784‐1865)が発明したホイートストンブリッジを普及させた。…

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