David Edward Hughes
✓ Source-basedfallingWelsh-American scientist and musician (1831-1900)
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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.
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The Hughes telegraph was the first telegraph printing text on a paper tape; this one was manufactured by Siemens and Halske, Germany (Warsaw Muzeum Techniki).
Hughes wireless apparatus, a clockwork driven spark transmitter and battery (right) and a modified version of his carbon block microphone (left) which he used in his 1879 experiments
Hughes later in life
The vault of David Edward Hughes, in the Circle of Lebanon, Highgate Cemetery, LondonAwards 5
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Country
United StatesCategory
Musicians
Type
Singer / Musician
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1831 to 1900 · aged 68
Written about in
25 languages
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