biography
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Hughes, David (Edward)
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| lived:
| (1831–1900)
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| biography:
| Inventor, born in London, UK. He was brought up in Virginia and became professor of music at Bardston College, Kentucky (1850–3). In 1855 he invented a telegraph typewriter which was widely used throughout the USA and Europe, even up to the 1930s, and in 1878 a carbon microphone, important for telephony, and the precursor of modern carbon microphones. He left a large fortune to London hospitals. |
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