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David Edward Hughes

1831 - 1900

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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 on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. In 1855 he patented a printing telegraph. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David Edward Hughes is the 218th most popular inventor (down from 195th in 2019), the 2,216th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,685th in 2019) and the 31st most popular British Inventor.

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Edward Hughes ranks 218 out of 426. Before him are Lou Ottens, Yuan Longping, Ernst Alexanderson, Slavoljub Eduard Penkala, David Schwarz, and Narcís Monturiol. After him are Shigeo Shingo, Jethro Tull, Traian Vuia, Carl Wilhelm Siemens, Oskar Barnack, and Melvil Dewey.

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Among people born in 1831, David Edward Hughes ranks 53. Before him are Henri Meilhac, Heinrich Anton de Bary, Philip Sheridan, Prince August, Duke of Dalarna, Konstantin Leontiev, and Fyodor Bredikhin. After him are Mary Mapes Dodge, Victor Henri Rochefort, Marquis de Rochefort-Luçay, Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola, Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, Johann von Herbeck, and Hendrik Willem Mesdag. Among people deceased in 1900, David Edward Hughes ranks 48. Before him are Arthur Sullivan, Hermann Levi, Elwin Bruno Christoffel, Carl Lange, Wilhelm Leibl, and Gustav Hartlaub. After him are Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, Bruno Abakanowicz, Frederic Edwin Church, and Prince Christian Victor of Schleswig-Holstein.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 2,216 out of 8,785. Before him are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836), Geri Halliwell (1972), William Jones (1675), John Stevens Henslow (1796), and David Platt (1966). After him are Cliff Jones (1935), Mary Cartwright (1900), Olivia Colman (1974), Patrick Magee (1922), Harry Redknapp (1947), and Harry Gregg (1932).

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Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 31. Before him are Robert Watson-Watt (1892), Charles Algernon Parsons (1854), Sandford Fleming (1827), Matthew Boulton (1728), William Murdoch (1754), and James Dyson (1947). After him are Jethro Tull (1674), Elihu Thomson (1853), Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Robert Whitehead (1823), Henry Maudslay (1771), and Alexander Parkes (1813).

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