1831 - 1900
David E. Hughes Welsh Inventor
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Welsh Inventor David E. Hughes was born David Edward Hughes on 16th May, 1831 in Bala,Gwynedd,Wales and passed away on 22nd Jan 1900 London aged 68. He is most remembered for Invented the first working Radio. His zodiac sign is Taurus.
David E. Hughes is a member of the following lists: American musicians, American inventors and Radio pioneers.
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| First Name |
David
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| Middle Name |
E.
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| Last Name |
Hughes
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| Full Name at Birth |
David Edward Hughes
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| Birthday |
16th May, 1831
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| Birthplace |
Bala,Gwynedd,Wales
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| Died |
22nd January, 1900
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| Place of Death |
London
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| Build |
Average
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| Zodiac Sign |
Taurus
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| Sexuality |
Straight
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| Ethnicity |
White
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| Nationality |
Welsh
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| University |
St. Joseph's, Bardstown, Kentucky
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| Occupation |
Inventor
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| Claim to Fame |
Invented the first working Radio
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| Friend |
Sir William Henry Preece, Sir William Crookes, William Grylls Adams, James Dewar
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David Edward Hughes (16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900), was a British-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. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. In 1855 he patented a printing telegraph.
He moved back to London in 1857 and further pursued experimentation and invention, coming up with an improved carbon microphone in 1878.
In 1879 he identified what seemed to be a new phenomenon during his experiments: sparking in one device could be heard in a separate portable microphone apparatus he had set up.
It was most probably radio transmissions but this was nine years before electromagnetic radiation was a proven concept and Hughes was convinced by others that his discovery was simply electromagnetic induction.
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