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)
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