Alexander Graham Bell

Alexander Graham Bell

male, deceased (1922)
inventor, telephone, scientist, American, immigrant to Canada, immigrant to the United States…Telecommunicationshistory
Alexander Graham Bell (3 March 1847 - 2 August 1922) was a scientist, inventor, and innovator. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, he emigrated...
Bell Labs

Bell Labs

female
Telecommunicationshistory, research and development, bell system, Lucent Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Bell Laboratories (also known as Bell Labs and formerly known as AT&T Bell Laboratories and Bell Telephone Laboratories) is part of the research...
Elisha Gray

Elisha Gray

male, deceased (1901)
National Inventors Hall of Fame, American, from Ohio, Telecommunicationshistory, inventor, Oberlin College alumni
Elisha Gray (August 2 1835 - January 21 1901) was an electrical engineer and is best known for his development of a telephone prototype in 1876 in...
Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

male, deceased (1937)
Radio pioneer, Nobel Prize in Physics, inventor, Telecommunicationshistory, electrical engineer, Italian
Guglielmo Marconi [gue:lmo mar'ko:ni] (25 April 1874 - 20 July 1937) was an Italian inventor, best known for his development of a radiotelegraph...
Antonio Meucci

Antonio Meucci

male, deceased (1896)
genius, Clifton Brewery, First stearic candle factory, Clifton NY, Invention of paraffin candles. US Patent, father of modern communications, firenze…Telecommunicationshistory
Antonio Meucci (April 13, 1808-October 18, 1889) was an Italian inventor. He developed some form of voice communication apparatus in 1857. Antonio...
Samuel F. B. Morse

Samuel F. B. Morse

male, deceased (1872)
buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, morse code, National Inventors Hall of Fame, Telecommunicationshistory, artist
Samuel Finley Breese Morse (April 27, 1791 - April 2, 1872) was an American painter of portraits and historic scenes, and co-inventor (with Alfred...
Charles Wheatstone

Charles Wheatstone

male, deceased (1875)
electrical engineer, electricity, stereoscope, physicist, British, Telecommunicationshistory
Sir Charles Wheatstone (February 6, 1802 - October 19, 1875) was a British scientist and inventor of many scientific breakthroughs of the Victorian...
William Fothergill Cooke

William Fothergill Cooke

male, deceased (1879)
inventor, Telecommunicationshistory, ealing, English, Farnham, Surrey, Electrical telegraph
Sir William Fothergill Cooke (Ealing May 4 1806 - Farnham, Surrey June 25 1879) was, with Charles Wheatstone, the co-inventor of the...
Ezra Cornell

Ezra Cornell

male, deceased (1874)
Cornell University, Member of the New York Assembly, Autodidact, Telecommunicationshistory, New York politician, philanthropist
Ezra Cornell (January 11, 1807 - December 9, 1874) was an American businessman and, with Andrew Dickson White, was the founder of Cornell University.
Erna Schneider Hoover

Erna Schneider Hoover

female, 83 years old
Women engineer, scientist, Wellesley College, inventor, Yale University alumni, Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover…Telecommunicationshistory
Dr. Erna Schneider Hoover (b. 1926) invented a method for prioritizing processes within stored program control switching systems while working at...