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David Edward Hughes

1831 - 1900

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David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in Corwen, Wales. His family moved to the U.S. while he was a child and he became a professor of music in Kentucky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Edward Hughes has received more than 157,429 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). David Edward Hughes is the 167th most popular inventor (down from 148th in 2019), the 1,499th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,279th in 2019) and the 26th most popular British Inventor.

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  • 30

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Among INVENTORS

Among inventors, David Edward Hughes ranks 167 out of 354Before him are Guillaume Amontons, Orban, Robert Cailliau, Edwin Howard Armstrong, Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff, and Charles Cros. After him are Siegfried Marcus, Juan de la Cierva, 1st Count of la Cierva, Georges Claude, Shigeo Shingo, George Washington, and Ottaviano Petrucci.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, David Edward Hughes ranks 38Before him are Peter Nicolai Arbo, Nadezhda von Meck, George Victor, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Frederick I, Duke of Anhalt, Princess Helena of Nassau, and Maurice de Hirsch. After him are Siegfried Marcus, Philip Sheridan, Ankō Itosu, Princess Charlotte of Prussia, George Pullman, and Ludvig Nobel. Among people deceased in 1900, David Edward Hughes ranks 38Before him are Samori Ture, Robert Luther, Vasily Kalinnikov, Joseph Bertrand, Eugenio Beltrami, and Mihály Munkácsy. After him are Pyotr Lavrov, Henry Sidgwick, Hermann Levi, Sergei Korsakoff, Peter II, Grand Duke of Oldenburg, and Elwin Bruno Christoffel.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 1,499 out of 7,765Before him are Oswald of Northumbria (604), William Jones (1675), Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773), Gareth Bale (1989), Norman Davies (1939), and Alan Baker (1939). After him are Sister Nivedita (1867), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Ciarán Hinds (1953), Dick Taylor (1943), John Martin (1789), and Sidney Paget (1860).

Among INVENTORS In United Kingdom

Among inventors born in United Kingdom, David Edward Hughes ranks 26Before him are Samuel Crompton (1753), Clive Sinclair (1940), John Kay (1704), Robert Stirling (1790), Jethro Tull (1674), and Charles Algernon Parsons (1854). After him are Hubert Cecil Booth (1871), Matthew Boulton (1728), Sandford Fleming (1827), William Murdoch (1754), John Kemp Starley (1854), and Oliver Lodge (1851).