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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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Schilling

Schilling

Pavel Schilling was a Russian engineer who created the first electromagnetic telegraph. Schilling was actually born Paul Constadt, Baron von...

Schilling and Gray

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

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

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

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

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

Strowger

Almon Strowger was an undertaker who created the first automatic telephone switching machine. Strowger was an irritable and eccentric man who moved...

Sturgeon

Sturgeon

William Sturgeon invented the electro-magnet, which was essential to the development of the telegraph and the telephone. Born in the north of...


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