Book #4 Description
The definitive biography (paperback and hard cover) of the brilliant inventor and practical experimenter, British-American David Edward Hughes who sent and received wireless signals in 1879, sixteen years before Marconi, and laid the foundations of the Communication Age,
The Printing Telegraph System that Hughes designed in 1855 was adopted by the Western Union Telegraph Company and across much of Europe making him a fortune, after which he freely gave away all of his later inventions.
The fruit of over ten years of research in libraries, archives, and museums, as well as access to all of Hughes’s private papers. 100 illustrations including prints, photographs, documents, and technical illustrations. Extensive endnotes and index.