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Oliver Heaviside Created 2024-06-26 Updated 2025-07-16
He participated in the development of the electrical telegraph, and he did some good modeling work that improved the foundations of the field, notably creating the telegrapher's equations.
He was one of those idealists who just want to do some cool work even if they have to starve for it, people had to get a state pension for him for his contributions. Nice guy. en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Oliver_Heaviside&oldid=1230097796#Later_years_and_views:He also never married: www.nndb.com/people/627/000204015/
In 1896, FitzGerald and John Perry obtained a civil list pension of £120 per year for Heaviside, who was now living in Devon, and persuaded him to accept it, after he had rejected other charitable offers from the Royal Society.
Spark-gap transmitter Updated 2025-07-16
The first type of device that allowed sending Morse code without wires, as opposed to the wired electrical telegraph that previously existed.
Wireless voice transmission came about with modulation.
Telephone Updated 2025-07-16
Also wired phones don't require modulation, which likely made their development much easier than wireless voice transmission. You just send the signal as a voltage differential directly obtained from the air pressure: how the telephone works.