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Heroes of the Telegraph
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John Munro
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To
the
same
year,
1879,
belong
his
laborious
investigations
on
current
induction,
and
some
ingenious
plans
for
eliminating
its
effects
on
telegraph
and
telephone
circuits.
Soon
after
his
discovery
of
the
microphone
he
was
invited
to
become
a
Fellow
of
the
Royal
Society,
and
a
few
years
later,
in
1885
he
received
the
Royal
Medal
of
the
Society
for
his
experiments,
and
especially
those
of
the
microphone.
In
1881
he
represented
the
United
Kingdom
as
a
Commissioner
at
the
Paris
International
Exhibition
of
Electricity,
and
was
elected
President
of
one
of
the
sections
of
the
International
Congress
of
Electricians.
In
1886
he
filled
the
office
of
President
of
the
Society
of
Telegraph
Engineers
and
of
Electricians.
The
Hughes
type-printer
was
a
great
mechanical
invention,
one
of
the
greatest
in
telegraphic
science,
for
every
organ
of
it
was
new,
and
had
to
be
fashioned
out
of
chaos;
an
invention
which
stamped
its
author's
name
indelibly
into
the
history
of
telegraphy,
and
procured
for
him
a
special
fame;
while
the
microphone
is
a
discovery
which
places
it
on
the
roll
of
investigators,
and
at
the
same
time
brings
it
to
the
knowledge
of
the
people.
Two
such
achievements
might
well
satisfy
any
scientific
ambition.
Professor
Hughes
has
enjoyed
a
most
successful
career.
Probably
no
inventor
ever
before
received
so
many
honours,
or
bore
them
with
greater
modesty.
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