# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-edward-hughes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:13:42.744Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-edward-hughes"
name: "David Edward Hughes"
slug: "david-edward-hughes"
description: "David Edward Hughes, was a Welsh-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales."
tagline: "Welsh-American scientist and musician (1831–1900)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/David_Edward_Hughes.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1831-05-16"
deathDate: "1900-01-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.52
  momentum:             1.416382252559727
  historical:           20.18150133333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump