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.
Zimmerman
Philip Zimmerman is a cryptography expert who developed the main e-mail protection software called Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). Zimmerman was a...
Zuse
Konrad Zuse developed a computer in Germany well before the Second World War. His machine, the Z-1 built between 1936 and 1938, can claim to be the...
Zworykin and Baird
Vladimir Zworykin and John Logie Baird are usually cited as the fathers of TV - but both in the end were unsuccessful, because they missed vital...
