In this controversy, unlike many others, the blame cannot be laid at Hooke's door.
Hooke was the first curator of the Royal Society, and when anything was to be investigated, usually invented the mechanical devices for doing so.

Astronomical apparatus, instruments for measuring specific weights, clocks and chronometers, methods of measuring the velocity of falling bodies, freezing and boiling points, strength of gunpowder, magnetic instruments--in short, all kinds of ingenious mechanical devices in all branches of science and mechanics.

It was he who made the famous air-pump of Robert Boyle, based on Boyle's plans.

Incidentally, Hooke claimed to be the inventor of the first air-pump himself, although this claim is now entirely discredited.
Within a period of two years he devised no less than thirty different methods of flying, all of which, of course, came to nothing, but go to show the fertile imagination of the man, and his tireless energy.

He experimented with electricity and made some novel suggestions upon the difference between the electric spark and the glow, although on the whole his contributions in this field are unimportant.