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Electrical engineer and inventor, born in Edinburgh. He linked two houses by telephone at 15, only two years after its invention by Alexander Graham Bell.

In 1882 he began an engineering apprenticeship in the Newcastle works of William George Armstrong, for whom he devised a new method of insulating electric cables on board ship by sheathing them in lead.

A consulting engineer in London, he was one of the first to explore the medical applications of radiography (1896), and in a letter to Nature in 1908 he outlined the principles of an electronic system of television.

Source: The Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia

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