David E. Hughes

David Edward Hughes (16 May 1831 – 22 January 1900) coinventor of the microphone, and an accomplished Welsh musician and a professor of music as well as chair of natural philosophy at a seminary for women in Bardstown, Kentucky. Hughes was born in London in 1831 and emigrated to the United States as a young man. He was an experimental physicist, mostly in the areas of...

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  • May 16, 1831

Date of death:

  • Jan 22, 1900

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  • David Edward Hughes

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