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David Edward Hughes
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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science · British-American musician and inventor (1830–1900) · musician · inventor · physicist · musicologist · teacher · technician · engineer · also David Edward Hughes, David Edwin Hughes, David E. Hughes, Hughes
Born 16 May 1831 · Died 22 January 1900 · Q366078
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1900· 1 entry
Died 1900-01-22.
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1899· 1 entry
Is also similar to devices known as crystal radio detectors
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1896· 1 entry
Won Albert Medal (1896).
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1885· 1 entry
Won Royal Medal (1885).
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1880· 2 entries
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (1880).
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Demonstrated his technology to representatives of the Royal Society including Thomas Henry Huxley, Sir George Gabriel Stokes, and William Spottiswoode, then president of the Society
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1879· 2 entries
While working in London Hughes discovered that a bad contact in a Bell telephone he was using in his experiments seemed to be sparking when he worked on a nearby induction balance
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Identified what seemed to be a new phenomenon during his experiments: electric sparks generated in one device could be heard in a separate portable microphone apparatus he had set up
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1878· 2 entries
And his new "microphone" was covered in the July 1 edition of Telegraph Journal and Electrical Review
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Hughes published his work on the effects of sound on the powered electronic sound pickups, called "transmitters", being developed for telephones
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1860· 1 entry
Granting him the title "Commander of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour"
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1857· 2 entries
And further pursued experimentation and invention, coming up with an improved carbon microphone in 1878
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To sell his invention, and worked on the transmission of sound over wires
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1855· 1 entry
Hughes designed a printing telegraph system
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1831· 1 entry
Born 1831-05-16.
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1830· 1 entry
The son of a musically talented family hailing originally from Y Bala (the place of birth was either London or Corwen, Denbighshire), and emigrated to the United States at the age of seven
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