摘要:

David Edward Hughes (1831–1900) was born in London. He was educated, and spent a short time working in America, where he developed and patented a novel form of printing telegraph. The telegraph was adopted first in America and then throughout Europe, and the resulting patent royalties provided a comfortable income for the rest of Hughes's life. Once the printing telegraph was established in America, Hughes left and settled in London in 1857. He spent the next 20 years working on the general improvement of telegraphs and became an expert in identifying and curing interference due to electromagnetic crosstalk. At the end of this period he invented two further devices, the microphone and the induction balance. By then he was concerned with gaining recognition not just as an inventor but as a scientist, and he presented these two instruments accordingly. As a result he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1880 and awarded the Royal Medal of the Royal Society. Later he was made President of the Institution of Telegraph Engineers(later the IEE), created a manager of the Royal Institution and awarded the Albert Medal of the Society of Arts. Nowadays he is also remembered for some initial work in the field of wireless telegraphy.

DOI:10.1049/piee.1979.0274

出版商:IEE    

年代:1979

数据来源: IET

摘要:

William Mather, a nineteenth century industrialist, of the firm of Mather and Platt, had a lifelong interest in education. In 1873, he founded his own works school for apprentices, which continued until 1969. He was special commissioner to the Royal Commission on Technical Education in 1881 and made investigations in the United States, Canada and Russia. He arranged with Thomas A. Edison to build and market the Edison dynamo in Britain. John and Edward Hopkinson, brothers and famous electrical engineers, developed the electrical machine at Mather's firm, and the three men pioneered the world's first electric underground tube railway in London. Mather's contributions included financial assistance to educational institutions, donations of equipment, workshops and prizes; he also delivered speeches and public addresses, and was a member of several professional bodies, local councils and the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes examining board. As a member of the UK Parliament he was influential in bringing about legislation. The comparatively late development of electrical engineering education is referred to, and particularly its sparse provision for the electrical industry in and around Manchester.

DOI:10.1049/piee.1979.0275

出版商:IEE    

年代:1979

数据来源: IET

摘要:

A brief introduction to the early development of the library of the Society of Telegraph Engineers is given, together with a list of periodical holdings in the present IEE Library (up to 1900).

DOI:10.1049/piee.1979.0276

出版商:IEE    

年代:1979

数据来源: IET