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Alexander Graham Bell
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Invented the Telephone (one of two who claim it).  Owner of Bell Telephone Company.
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Boriz Rosing
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envisioned a TV using CRT on the receiving side.
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Almon Strowger
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electromagnetic telephone.  Subscribers not operators
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Samuel Morse
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single wire telegraph system
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David Sarnoff
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NBC.  Ran RCA.   “The General”
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James Maxwell
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electromagnetism studies.  Physics.  Maxwell’s laws.
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Gugielmo Marconi
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Russian.  Radiotelegraph system. (wireless)

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Elisha Gray
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first telephone prototype.  Western Union (Gray/Bell Controversy)
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Lee de Forrest
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vacuum tubes.  Long distance phone
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John Fleming
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vacuum tubes as well and diodes. 
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Reginald Fessenden
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transmitted a speech 1 mile away and then did O holy night.
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Heinrich Hertz
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device to detect radio   waves
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Edward Davy
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demonstrated a working model of the telegraph
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Claude Chappe
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france.  Optical telegraph.  First telecommunication system.

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Nicholas Negroponte
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MIT ‘one laptop per child’
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Alfred Vail
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worked with Morse.  First operated his telegraph.  DC and Baltimore
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Theodore Vail
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telephone industrialist.  Closed systems.  Monopolies
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Paul Nipkow
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first gen. TV technology
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Philo Farnsworth
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first completely electronic TV inventor. Image pickup device
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Vladimir Zworykin 
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cathode ray tubes.  Russian.  TV pioneer
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Charles Jenkins
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first TV broadcasting network.  Mechanical tech.  Not electric
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John Baird
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first working television system
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John Walson
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invented cable TV
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Joseph Jacquard
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improved the punch cards
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Charles Babbage
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originated the concept of the programmable computer
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Herman Hollerith
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mechanical tabulator based on punch cards
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Bill Gates
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Microsoft
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Linus Torvaldes
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Linux

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Stanley Hubbard
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started TV/radio broadcasting corp
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Tim Berners-Lee
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invented world wide web
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Paul Baran and Donald Davies
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packet switching networks
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J. Licklider
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ideas contributing to internet.  Comp Sci.
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Ted Nelson and Xanadu
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coined “hypertext”.  Xanadu=attempt at simple interface
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Oliver Lodge
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writer in development of wireless telegraph
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Francis Ronalds
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pioneer of electric telegraph
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