List of English Inventions and Discoveries - Communications

Communications

• The postmark (called the "Bishop Mark"), introduced by English Postmaster General Henry Bishop in 1661 and showed only the day and month of mailing in order to prevent the delay of the mail by carriers.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• the world's first Color motion picture film – Edward Raymond Turner in 1899
• 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)