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.
Kahn
Bob Kahn was co-designer of the system for handling data communication between computers known as TCP/IP. Kahn shone as a computer genius at...
Kelvin
William Thomson designed the first submarine cable and receiver for underwater telegraph communications. Thomson moved to Glasgow from Belfast...


