David edward hughes biography
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David edward hughes biography
Scientist of the Day - David Edward Hughes
The clockwork interruptor that David Hughes used to generate and detect electromagnetic waves in , rediscovered in and now on display in the Science Museum, London ()
David Edward Hughes, an English-American physicist and musician, was born May 16, , probably in London.
He had considerable musical talent as a child, and when his parents moved to the United States, he pursued musical studies, and managed to land a position as a professor of music at a small college in Kentucky.
Portrait of David Edward Hughes, date and source unknown ()
But Hughes was also a tinkerer and inventor, and as soon as the telegraph began to spread across the U.S., Hughes set out to make a better transmitter and receiver.
He ended up inventing, in , a receiver that recorded the incoming signal on a paper tape. About this time, he moved back to England to market his device, at which he was quite successful. There are various Hughes paper-tape