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    David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work...
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  • English singer David Hughes (astronomer) (1941–2022), English astronomer specialising in comets 4205 David Hughes, an asteroid David Edward Hughes (1831–1900)...
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    (loose-contact) carbon microphone. This was independently developed by David Edward Hughes in England and Emile Berliner and Thomas Edison in the US. Although...
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  • Edward David Hughes FRS (June 18, 1906 – June 30, 1963) was a British organic chemist. He was a professor first at University College, Bangor and then...
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    transmitter's invention) and David Edward Hughes study and published paper on the physics of loose-contact carbon transmitters (work that Hughes did not bother to...
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    Morse, Alexander Bain, Royal Earl House, David Edward Hughes, Emile Baudot, Donald Murray, Charles L. Krum, Edward Kleinschmidt and Frederick G. Creed. Teleprinters...
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  • Edward or Ned Hughes may refer to: Edward Hughes (artist) (1832–1908), English painter Edward Robert Hughes (1851–1914), English painter Edward Ellis...
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    speed of the House machine was announced as 2600 words an hour. David Edward Hughes invented the printing telegraph in 1855; it used a keyboard of 26...
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    Edward Hughes Ball Hughes (28 May 1798 – 10 March 1863), also known as "The Golden Ball", was an English dandy known for his extravagant lifestyle. Hughes...
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  • through this conductor. In 1879, another English-born scientist, David Edward Hughes, demonstrated how the properties of a coil change when placed in...
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    electromagnetic induction. In 1879 the experimenter and inventor David Edward Hughes, working in London, discovered that a bad contact in a Bell telephone...
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    vertical razor blades, based on the 1879 "microphone" detector of David Edward Hughes. The aerial is connected to the grounded inductor. The coil has an...
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    Transmitter of Telegrams" (PDF), The New York Times, 25 January 1914 "David Edward Hughes". Clarkson University. 14 April 2007. Archived from the original...
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    by David Edward Hughes in England and Emile Berliner and Thomas Edison in the US. Although Edison was awarded the first patent in mid-1877, Hughes had...
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    actor Georgiana Houghton, British artist and spiritualist medium David Edward Hughes, FRS, 19th-century electrical engineer and inventor William Henry...
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    by David Edward Hughes in England and Emile Berliner and Thomas Edison in the US. Although Edison was awarded the first patent in mid-1877, Hughes had...
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    metal detector. In late 1878 and early 1879 Professor (of music) David Edward Hughes published his experiments with the 4-coil induction balance. He used...
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  • Howe (1819–1867), U.S. – sewing machine David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), UK – printing telegraph Kate Duval Hughes (born 1837) – Window sash security devices...
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    development of efficient electric generators, motors and transformers. David Edward Hughes and Heinrich Hertz both demonstrated and confirmed the phenomenon...
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  • Angeles; as of 2006[update] she is based in Seattle. Described by David-Edward Hughes of Talkin' Broadway, as "a big-boned, whiskey voiced stunner", she...
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  • century. The equations also describe radio waves, discovered by David Edward Hughes in 1879, around the time of James Clerk Maxwell's death. Amongst...
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    David W. Hughes (7 November 1941 – 6 June 2022) was professor of astronomy at the University of Sheffield, where he worked from 1965 to 2007. Hughes published...
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  • Amsterdam Centraal railway station and Rijksmuseum (d. 1921) 1831 – David Edward Hughes, Welsh-American physicist, co-invented the microphone (d. 1900) 1859...
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    ground a high voltage lightning strike. In 1879 the Welsh scientist David Edward Hughes found that loose contacts between a carbon rod and two carbon blocks...
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  • Edward Hughes (1772 – 11 February 1850) was a Welsh clergyman and prize-winning Welsh language poet, whose bardic name was Y Dryw ("The wren"). Hughes...
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  • Kaderlan "...recalls Carol Burnett in her prime." --Back Stage West, David Edward Hughes "Weedman's OB Homecoming Starts at ArcLight Jan. 17 - Playbill.com"...
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  • 4205 David Hughes, provisional designation 1985 YP, is a Mars-crossing asteroid from inside the innermost regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 4...
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  • Farrar Hughes (January 17, 1962 – March 16, 2009) was a British and American fisheries biologist known as an expert in stream salmonid ecology. Hughes was...
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  • the coherer with early demonstrations and published findings by David Edward Hughes (1880) and Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1887 to 1890) and further additions...
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  • Robert Hope-Jones (1859–1914). 1870: Carbon microphone, invented by David Edward Hughes. 1968: The logical bassoon, an electronically controlled version...
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