William Hooper (1817 or 1818 – 25 September 1877[1]) was a British chemist.
His first products were rubber goods, mostly for the medical profession.
Experiments were carried out for insulating electric cables using rubber, and he devised a continuous manufacturing process for this.
Hooper established Hooper's Telegraph Works, a limited company based in London's Millwall Docks with a factory on Mitcham Common.
The company went into liquidation in 1877, with Hooper dying a year later at the age of sixty.