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.
Faraday
Michael Faraday's work laid the foundations for electrical technology, and he was the first man to create continuous artificial electricity....
Fawcett
Henry Fawcett was a political reformer who became Postmaster-General in 1880. As a student at Cambridge university he developed radical political...
Fessenden
Reginald Fessenden created the system for transmitting music and speech by radio, known as AM (amplitude modulation). When Fessenden was the head...
Field
Cyrus Field was an entrepreneur who led the first transatlantic telegraph cable venture. Field was never very interested in school and left when he...
Flemming
Although not one of the 'greats' of invention, John Fleming's creation of the thermionic valve (or vacuum tube) helped kick-start modern electronics....
Flowers
Tommy Flowers built the first computer, as a codebreaking device during the Second World War. Flowers was a Londoner with a passion for electronics...
