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.
Watson
Thomas Watson was Alexander Graham Bell's right-hand man who helped him create the telephone. Watson grew up in a livery stable, in Salem. He...
Wheatstone
Charles Wheatstone was a musical instrument maker who also made major improvements to the telegraph. He began his career inventing new musical...
