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.
Marconi
Guglielmo Marconi is regarded as the grandfather of radio communication, who devised the first practical system of wireless telegraphy. Alongside...
Maxwell
James Clerk Maxwell was a truly great scientist who first proposed a unified theory of electro-magnetism and helped shape the future of physics for...
Morse
Samuel Morse is famed as the creator of Morse code and was also telegraph's greatest promoter. Morse was a well-off, well-connected artist, who...
Morse and Vail
Samuel Morse, the American pioneer of the telegraph, had a wealthy backer called Alfred Vail who was himself a skilled engineer. So not only was...
Murray
Donald Murray invented the 5-unit code multiplex telegraph system. Murray migrated from New Zealand to Sydney, Australia, to study and then became...
