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.
Heaviside
Oliver Heaviside was a genius who provided the theory for long-distance telephones and predicted the existence of the ionosphere. He was born in...
Hertz
Heinrich Hertz was the first man to transmit an electrical current between two points without using a wire, paving the way for radio. A physics...
Hubbard Gardiner Greene
Gardiner Hubbard was a founding partner of the Bell Telephone Company alongside Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Sanders, later becoming president of...
Hughes
David Hughes created the first mechanism for printing telegraph messages in words rather than dots and dashes. Hughes emigrated to the USA from...
Hunnings
Henry Hunnings developed significant improvements to the voice transmitters in telephones. Hunnings was the curate of the parish of Bolton Percy,...
Hubbard and Bell
Alexander Graham Bell went to the United States as a teacher, rather than as an inventor. His lectures in teaching the deaf won him many friends -...
