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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.

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Edison

Edison

Although better known for inventing the electric lamp and the phonograph, Thomas Alva Edison made a number of significant improvements to the...

Erlang

Erlang

Agner Krarup Erlang developed the mathematical formulae that underpinned the design of telephone networks from the 1920s. He passed his final...


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