biography
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| lived:
| (1806–85)
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| biography:
| Physician and scientist, born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, SW England, UK. He studied medicine, and commenced business in London as a chemist, but at about 30 began experimenting with telegraphy. He emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1838, where he involved himself in civic affairs, and continued his experiments on subjects including starch production and the smelting of copper. As inventor of the electromagnetic repeater, he stands alongside Wheatstone and Cooke as one of the founders of wireless telegraphy. |
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