Pioneers and personalities
We take for granted that by pressing few buttons on a telephone we can talk to family friends or business associates not only throughout the UK but around the world as well.
These advances in telecommunications and broadcasting owes much to the brilliant minds and personalities who helped launch the electronic revolution. Pioneers and personalities provides an insight to the people who have helped shape the world of telecommunications as we know it today.
Cooke
William Cooke created the first working telegraph in Britain, and invented the five-needle telegraph system with his partner Charles Wheatstone...
Calahan
In 1867 Edward Calahan invented the first machine to print out the price of stocks and shares over telegraph wires. Before the machine arrived,...
Cerf
Vinton Gray Cerf was co-designer of the mechanisms known as TCP/IP that enabled the Internet's capability to be used by everybody. Cerf dreamt of...
Chappe
Claude Chappe invented the first practical visual telegraph. Known as the semaphore, it used large wooden arms to spell out words and messages...
Clarke
Arthur C Clarke is a visionary science-fiction writer who suggested the principles for the 'geostationary' communication satellites that now orbit the...
Cooke and Wheatstone
The British fathers of the electrical telegraph were William Cooke and Professor Charles Wheatstone. The relationship was different from the more...
