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.
Schilling
Pavel Schilling was a Russian engineer who created the first electromagnetic telegraph. Schilling was actually born Paul Constadt, Baron von...
Schilling and Gray
The Russian born Baron Pavel Schilling is one of the forgotten pioneers of the telegraph. He had developed a working needle telegraph four years...
Scott
Giles Gilbert Scott was a successful architect who designed the famous red telephone boxes used throughout Britain for most of the 20th century....
Sharples
George Sharples was a successful businessman who installed the first telephone exchange in Preston. Sharples was a jack-of-all-trades who could...
Shockley
William Shockley was one of the co-inventors of the transistor, which earned him the Nobel prize in 1956. Shockley had been interested in physics...
Stephenson
Robert Stephenson and his father built the first commercial railway locomotive - the Rocket. Stephenson's father worked hard to find the money to...
Strowger
Almon Strowger was an undertaker who created the first automatic telephone switching machine. Strowger was an irritable and eccentric man who moved...
Sturgeon
William Sturgeon invented the electro-magnet, which was essential to the development of the telegraph and the telephone. Born in the north of...
