Edward Davy
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Edward Davy was an English physician
, scientist
, and inventor who played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy
.
Davy published Outline of a New Plan of Telegraphic Communication in 1836 and carried out telegraphic experiments the following year. In 1837 he demonstrated a working model of the telegraph in Exeter Hall
. He was granted a patent for his telegraph in 1838. However, he was soon obliged to drop his investigations of telegraphy for personal reasons. His patent was purchased by the Electric Telegraph Company
in 1847.
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...
, scientist
Scientist
A scientist in a broad sense is one engaging in a systematic activity to acquire knowledge. In a more restricted sense, a scientist is an individual who uses the scientific method. The person may be an expert in one or more areas of science. This article focuses on the more restricted use of the word...
, and inventor who played a prominent role in the development of telegraphy
Telegraphy
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of messages via some form of signalling technology. Telegraphy requires messages to be converted to a code which is known to both sender and receiver...
.
Davy published Outline of a New Plan of Telegraphic Communication in 1836 and carried out telegraphic experiments the following year. In 1837 he demonstrated a working model of the telegraph in Exeter Hall
Exeter Hall
Exeter Hall was a hall on the north side of The Strand, London, England. It was erected between 1829 and 1831 on the site of Exeter Exchange, to designs by John Peter Gandy, the brother of the visionary architect Joseph Michael Gandy...
. He was granted a patent for his telegraph in 1838. However, he was soon obliged to drop his investigations of telegraphy for personal reasons. His patent was purchased by the Electric Telegraph Company
Electric Telegraph Company
The Electric Telegraph Company was the world's first public telegraph company founded in the United Kingdom in 1846 by Sir William Fothergill Cooke and John Lewis Ricardo, MP for Stoke-on-Trent....
in 1847.
External links
- Biography from the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
- Biography from AIM25 (Archives in London and the M25 area)
- Biography from the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
- Copyrighted photograph from the State Library of South Australia.