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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I. CHARLES FERDINAND GAUSS.
CHARLES FERDINAND GAUSS was born at Braunschweig on April 30, 1777. His
father, George Dietrich, was a mason, who employed himself otherwise in
the hard winter months, and finally became cashier to a TODTENCASSE, or
burial fund.
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