Etymology

Cooke triplet

Today it means: A photographic lens comprising a negative flint glass element in the centre with a crown glass element on each side. Full definition →

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The story

Named after the company T. Cooke & Sons of York, whose chief engineer Dennis Taylor designed it in 1893.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.