What is David E. Hughes's middle name?
E.
What is David E. Hughes's full name?
David Edward Hughes
David E. Hughes date of birth:
May 16, 1831
How old was David E. Hughes when died?
68
Where was David E. Hughes born?
Bala, Gwynedd, Wales
When did David E. Hughes die?
January 22, 1900
David E. Hughes body shape:
Average
Is David E. Hughes gay or straight?
Straight
What is David E. Hughes's ethnicity?
White
What is David E. Hughes nationality?
Welsh
Where did David E. Hughes go to university?
St. Joseph's, Bardstown, Kentucky
What is David E. Hughes's occupation?
Inventor
David E. Hughes claim to fame:
Invented the first working Radio
David E. Hughes friends:
Sir William Henry Preece, Sir William Crookes, William Grylls Adams, James Dewar
Short Biography
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.