Before we went wireless
Subtitle: David Edward Hughes, FRS : his life, inventions, and discoveries   (1829-1900)
By: Ivor Hughes & David Ellis Evans
Contributors: Evans, David Ellis, 1943-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Images from the Past; Images From The Past
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bennington, Vt
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
ISBN-13: 9781884592546; 9781884592539
Subjects: Electromagnets; Telegraph; Metal detectors; Telephone systems; History; Biography; Inventors
Description: "The first biography of the brilliant inventor and practical experimenter in late 19th century telegraphy, telephony, metal detection, and audiology, British-born David Edward Hughes"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Hughes Project; title: Welsh roots; title: The adventure begins; title: Go west, young man, and seek your fortune; title: Into the big league with both feet; title: Can you read me now? : return to Britain and the Atlantic telegraph cable; title: 1858; title: Financial success at last; title: If only we had a telephone, we could sort this out!; title: A matter of life or death; title: The etheric force; title: The joyous years; title: The rise of the theoreticians; title: Last years and legacy; title: Appendix 1, pt. 1: Technical details of the development of Hughes's first telegraph instrument during the 1850s; title: Appendix 1, pt. 2: Technical details of the development of Hughes's improved telegraph instrument; title: Appendix 1, pt. 3: Development of Hughes's telegraph instrument after 1860; title: Appendix 2: The Hughes electromagnet; title: Appendix 3: The Hughes family in America from 1860.