David Edward Hughes
(16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900), was an Anglo-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. Born in London, his family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became 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 where sparking in one device could be heard in a portable microphone apparatus he 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. He was also a harpist.
(16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900), was an Anglo-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. Born in London, his family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became 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 where sparking in one device could be heard in a portable microphone apparatus he 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. He was also a harpist.
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