Hughes, David

Hughes, David

▪ British inventor

born May 16, 1831, London
died Jan. 22, 1900, London
 Anglo-American inventor of the carbon microphone, which was important to the development of telephony. His family emigrated to the United States when he was seven years old. In 1850 he became professor of music at St. Joseph's College, Bardstown, Ky. Five years later he took out a U.S. patent for a type-printing telegraph instrument; its success was immediate, and in 1857 Hughes took it to Europe, where it came into widespread use and in some places continued in use until the 1930s. Hughes's microphone, invented in 1878, was the forerunner of the various carbon microphones now in use.

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