
Before We Went Wireless
David Edward Hughes, His Life, Inventions and Discoveries 1831-1900
Images from the Past (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-1-884592-53-9 (ISBN)
Description
This is the first biography of the brilliant inventor and practical experimenter, British-born David Edward Hughes. A contemporary of Edison and Bell, Hughes made major contributions in the fields of telegraphy, telephony, metal detection, and audiology. His printing telegraph, adopted across much of Europe, made him a fortune. Hughes sent and received wireless signals in 1879, some sixteen years before Marconi, but faced with the skepticism of his peers, he discontinued his research and his accomplishments were only recognized years later.
The fruit of over ten years of research in libraries, archives, and museums, as well as access to all of Hughes's private papers and visits to places where Hughes lived and worked in the UK, US, and Europe, this is the definitive account of a great Victorian scientist whose inventions laid the foundations of the Communications Age.
Over 100 illustrations include historic prints, photographs, and documents, and modern technical illustrations: Hughes's lab work and instruments; the places where he lived, worked, and traveled; and portraits of the most prominent people in his work and family life. Extensive endnotes and index.
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Language
English
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
753 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-884592-53-9 (9781884592539)
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Ivor Hughes received his B.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from Bradford University in the UK where he worked in the telecommunications and aerospace industry. He was lured to the USA by the cutting edge technology of this industry, where he has been responsible for a number of electronic system designs on which he hold several patents.