British Inventions - Communications

Communications

• Uniform Penny Post, and postage stamp - Sir Rowland Hill
• Christmas card - Sir Henry Cole
• Valentines card - Modern card 18th century England
• Pencil - Cumbria, England
• Mechanical pencil - Sampson Mordan and John Isaac Hawkins in 1822.
• Clockwork radio - Trevor Baylis
• The first Radio transmission using a Spark Transmitter, achieving a range of approximately 500 metres. - David E. Hughes
• Electromagnetic induction & Faraday's law of induction Began as a series of experiments by Faraday that later became some of the first ever experiments in the discovery of radio waves and the development of radio - Michael Faraday
• Pioneer in the development of radio communication - William Eccles
• Tin can telephone a device that conveyed sounds over an extended wire by mechanical vibrations - Robert Hooke 1667
• The world's first radio station on the Isle of Wight
• On December 2, 1922, in Sorbonne, France, Edwin Belin, an Englishman demonstrated a mechanical scanning device that was an early precursor to modern television
• The first pocket sized handheld television, the MTV-1 - Sir Clive Sinclair
• Pioneering work on the development of the long-lasting materials that made today's liquid crystal displays possible - Team headed by Sir Brynmor Jones and Developed by Scotsman George Gray and Englishman Ken Harrison In conjunction with the Royal Radar Establishment and the University of Hull
• The first public demonstration of television On 26 January 1926 at 22 Frith Street London - John Logie Baird
• 405-line television system was the first fully electronic television system used in regular broadcasting - Alan Blumlein
• The world's first public broadcasts of high-definition television were made from Alexandra Palace, North London in 1936 - BBC Television Service
• The first commercially successful electric telegraph - Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke in 1837
• Pioneer of stereo - Alan Blumlein
• Shorthand - Timothy Bright (1550/1-1615). Invented first modern shorthand
• Pitman Shorthand - Isaac Pitman
• Discovered the photoconductivity of the element selenium. This discovery led to the invention of photoelectric cells (solar panels), including those used in the earliest television systems - Willoughby Smith in 1873
• Proposed the existence of the Kennelly–Heaviside layer, a layer of ionised gas that reflects radio waves around the Earth's curvature - Oliver Heaviside
• Important improvements of the facsimile machine (Fax Machine) - Frederick Bakewell
• The first SMS message was sent over the Vodafone GSM network in 1992 - Neil Papworth
• Typewriter - First patent for a device similar to a typewriter granted to Henry Mill in 1714.
• the world's first automatic totalisator - George Julius
• pioneer in the use of fiber optics in telecommunications - Charles K. Kao and George Hockham
• The originator of the concept of geostationary satellites for the use of telecommunications relays - Arthur C Clarke
• Teletext Information Service - The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
• Print stereotyping: William Ged (1690–1749)
• Roller printing: Thomas Bell (patented 1783)
• The adhesive postage stamp and the postmark: James Chalmers (1782–1853)
• Universal Standard Time: Sir Sandford Fleming (1827–1915)
• Light signalling between ships: Admiral Philip H. Colomb (1831–1899)
• The telephone: Alexander Graham Bell (1847–1922)
• The teleprinter: Frederick G. Creed (1871–1957)
• The first working television, and colour television; John Logie Baird (1888–1946)
• Radar: Robert Watson-Watt (1892–1973)
• The underlying principles of Radio - James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879)
• The Automated Teller Machine and Personal Identification Number system - James Goodfellow (born 1937)