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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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Oersted

Oersted

Hans Oersted discovered that an electric current creates a magnetic field, making electromagnetism the key to modern communication. Oersted spent...


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