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The list Telecommunications includes
Thomas A. Edison, Nikola Tesla, Alexander Graham Bell, Jagadish Chandra Bose and Emile Berliner.
The list consists of 504 members.
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Thomas A. Edison
American inventor and businessman (1847–1931)
Overview: Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such ...Date of birth: 11 February 1847Date of death: 18 October 1931Age: 84 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: InventorGender: MaleHeight: 5' 10" (178 cm)
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Nikola Tesla
Serbian-American inventor (1856–1943)
Overview: Nikola Tesla (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Тесла; 10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to ...Date of birth: 10 July 1856Date of death: 7 January 1943Age: 86 (age at death)Nationality: CroatianOccupation: InventorGender: MaleHeight: 6' 2" (188 cm) 0
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Alexander Graham Bell
Telephone inventor
Overview: Alexander Graham Bell (, born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also ...Date of birth: 3 March 1847Date of death: 2 August 1922Age: 75 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: ScientistGender: Male 0
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Jagadish Chandra Bose
Bengali physicist
Overview: Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose CSI CIE FRS (;, 30 November 1858 – 23 November 1937), also spelled Jagdish and Jagadis, was a biologist, physicist, botanist and an early writer of science fiction. He pioneered ...Date of birth: 30 November 1858Date of death: 23 November 1937Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: IndianOccupation: ScientistGender: Male 0
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Emile Berliner
German / American inventor of the gramophone and disc for record player
Overview: Emile Berliner (May 20, 1851 – August 3, 1929), originally Emil Berliner, was a German-American inventor. He is best known for inventing the vertical-cut flat disc record (called a "gramophone record" ...Date of birth: 20 May 1851Date of death: 3 August 1929Age: 78 (age at death)Nationality: GermanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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Claude Chappe
Late 18th-century French inventor
Overview: Claude Chappe (25 December 1763 – 23 January 1805) was a French inventor who in 1792 demonstrated a practical semaphore system that eventually spanned all of France. His system consisted of a series of ...Date of birth: 25 December 1763Date of death: 23 January 1805Age: 41 (age at death)Nationality: FrenchOccupation: Inventor 0
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Guglielmo Marconi
Italian inventor and radio pioneer (1874–1937)
Overview: Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi FRSA (25 April 1874 – 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer, known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio ...Date of birth: 25 April 1874Date of death: 20 July 1937Age: 63 (age at death)Nationality: ItalianOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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Alexander Stepanovich Popov
Russian physicist
Overview: Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; Russian: Алекса́ндр Степа́нович Попо́в; March 16 [O.S. March 4] 1859 – January 13 [O.S. December 31, 1905] 1906) was a Russian ph ...Date of birth: 16 March 1859Date of death: 13 January 1906Age: 46 (age at death)Nationality: RussianOccupation: Inventor 0
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Elisha Gray
American electrical engineer
Overview: Elisha Gray (August 2, 1835 – January 21, 1901) was an American electrical engineer who co-founded the Western Electric Manufacturing Company. Gray is best known for his development of a telephone prototype ...Date of birth: 2 August 1835Date of death: 21 January 1901Age: 65 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Vladimir K. Zworykin
Russian engineer
Overview: Vladimir Kosmich Zworykin (Russian: Влади́мир Козьми́ч Зворы́кин, Vladimir Koz'mich Zvorykin; July 29 [O.S. July 17] 1888 – July 29, 1982) was a Russian-American inventor, engineer, and ...Date of birth: 30 July 1889Date of death: 29 July 1982Age: 92 (age at death)Nationality: RussianOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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Almon Brown Strowger
Inventor of the first successful telephone switching system
Overview: Almon Brown Strowger (February 11, 1839 – May 26, 1902) was an American inventor who gave his name to the Strowger switch, an electromechanical telephone exchange technology that his invention and patent ...Date of birth: 11 February 1839Date of death: 26 May 1902Age: 63 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Reginald Fessenden
Canadian-born inventor (1866–1932)
Overview: Reginald Aubrey Fessenden (October 6, 1866 – July 22, 1932) was a Canadian-born inventor, who did a majority of his work in the United States and also claimed U.S. citizenship through his American-born ...Date of birth: 6 October 1866Date of death: 22 July 1932Age: 65 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: Inventor 0
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Philo Farnsworth
American inventor
Overview: Philo Taylor Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) was an American inventor and television pioneer. He made many crucial contributions to the early development of all-electronic television. He ...Date of birth: 19 August 1906Date of death: 11 March 1971Age: 64 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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John Logie Baird
Scottish engineer; first person to demonstrate a working television.
Overview: John Logie Baird (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish inventor, electrical engineer, and innovator, demonstrating the world's first working television system on 26 January 1926. He also ...Date of birth: 14 August 1888Date of death: 14 June 1946Age: 57 (age at death)Nationality: ScottishOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Tim Berners-Lee
English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)
Overview: Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee OM KBE FRS FREng FRSA FBCS (born 8 June 1955), also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web. He is a Professorial ... 0
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Lee De Forest
American inventor
Overview: Lee de Forest (August 26, 1873 – June 30, 1961) was an American inventor, self-described "Father of Radio", and a pioneer in the development of sound-on-film recording used for motion pictures. He had ...Date of birth: 26 August 1873Date of death: 30 June 1961Age: 87 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: InventorGender: Male 0
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David Sarnoff
American businessman
Overview: David Sarnoff (February 27, 1891 – December 12, 1971) was a Russian-American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television. Throughout most of his career he led the Radio Corporation of America ...Date of birth: 27 February 1891Date of death: 12 December 1971Age: 80 (age at death)Nationality: AmericanOccupation: BusinessGender: Male 0
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Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Public broadcaster
Overview: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (French: Société Radio-Canada), officially branded as CBC/Radio-Canada, is a Canadian crown corporation that serves as the national public radio and television br ... 0
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Richard H. Frenkiel
American engineer
Overview: Richard H. Frenkiel (born March 4, 1943 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American engineer, known for his significant role in the early development of cellular telephone networks. 0
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Innocenzo Manzetti
Italian inventor (1826–1877)
Overview: Innocenzo Vincenzo Bartolomeo Luigi Carlo Manzetti (17 March 1826 – 15 March 1877) was an Italian inventor born in Aosta. Following his primary school studies he went to the Jesuit-run Saint Bénin ...Date of birth: 17 March 1826Date of death: 17 March 1877Age: 51 (age at death)Nationality: ItalianOccupation: Inventor 0
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