Ashbridge, Sir Noel (1889–1975), broadcasting engineer, was born on 10 December 1889 in Wanstead, Essex, the fourth son and youngest child of John Ashbridge, solicitor, of Wanstead, and his wife, Sylvia Moore. He was educated at Forest School, Snaresbrook, Essex, and King's College, London...
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Ashbridge, Sir Noel (1889–1975), broadcasting engineer
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Bishop, Sir Harold (1900–1983), broadcasting engineer
Anne Pimlott Baker
Bishop, Sir Harold (1900–1983), broadcasting engineer, was born on 29 October 1900, at 57 Rosebery Road, Clapham, London, the third son of Henry Thomas Bishop, a builder, and his wife, Mary Ann Ellis. He was educated at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, and on leaving school took an apprenticeship with ...
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Cole, Eric Kirkham (1901–1966), radio engineer
Rowland F. Pocock
Cole, Eric Kirkham (1901–1966), radio engineer, was born at 14 Windsor Road, Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, on 4 July 1901, the only child of Henry Cole, a dairyman, and his wife, Alice Laura, née Kirkham. He was educated at Southend Day Technical School and, after serving a three-year apprenticeship, went into partnership with his father as an electrical engineer. He set up his own business in 1922, making radio receivers to take advantage of the demand following the foundation of the ...
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Eckersley, Peter Pendleton (1892–1963), broadcasting engineer
Asa Briggs
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Eckersley, Peter Pendleton (1892–1963), broadcasting engineer, was born on 6 January 1892 in Puebla, Mexico, the third son, and the third and youngest child, of (William) Alfred Eckersley, a railway engineer, and his wife, Rachel, daughter of Thomas Henry Huxley, physiologist. Eckersley's elder brother was the physicist and engineer ...
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Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas (1886–1965), entrepreneur and developer of radio
A. J. L. Blond
Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas (1886–1965), entrepreneur and developer of radio, was born on 8 August 1886 at Sunbury, Middlesex, the second child of Thomas Harvey Fisk, builder, and his wife, Charlotte Hariette, née Halland. Educated at St Mary's and Sunbury Boys' schools, Fisk...
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Koch, Ludwig Karl (1881–1974), broadcaster and sound recordist
John F. Burton
Koch, Ludwig Karl (1881–1974), broadcaster and sound recordist, was born on 13 November 1881 at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 20, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second of the three children of Karl Theodor Koch, businessman, and his wife, Auguste Hess. Ludwig Koch's parents, both of whom were Jews, were enthusiastic music-lovers who introduced him into ...
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Loring, Frederick George (1869–1951), naval officer and wireless expert
A. J. L. Blond
Loring, Frederick George (1869–1951), naval officer and wireless expert, was born on 11 March 1869 at Stonelands, Ryde, Isle of Wight, the eldest son of Admiral Sir William Loring (d. 1895), and his wife, Frances Louisa Adams. From a naval family—his grandfather ...
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Marconi, Guglielmo (1874–1937), physicist and inventor of wireless transmission
Giorgio Dragoni
Marconi, Guglielmo (1874–1937), physicist and inventor of wireless transmission, was born on 25 April 1874 in Bologna, Italy, the son of Giuseppe Marconi (1826–1904), a local administrator and landowner, and his second wife, Annie (b. c.1843), daughter of Andrew Jameson of the notable Irish family of whiskey distillers. Owing to his poor health ...
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McLean, Sir Francis Charles (1904–1998), broadcasting engineer
Anne Pimlott Baker
McLean, Sir Francis Charles (1904–1998), broadcasting engineer, was born on 6 November 1904 at 5 Back 45, Friston Street, Ladywood, Birmingham, the son of Michael McLean, a railway porter, and his wife, Alice. After gaining first-class honours in electrical engineering at the University of Birmingham...
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Mullard, Stanley Robert (1883–1979), radio engineer and industrialist
Rowland F. Pocock
Mullard, Stanley Robert (1883–1979), radio engineer and industrialist, was born in Bermondsey, London, on 1 November 1883, the third of five children of Robert Mullard and his wife, Ann, née Ludford. He left school at the age of fourteen, joining Mackey's Electric Lamp Company Ltd...
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Power, Edward Joseph [Ted] (1899–1993), radio engineer and art collector
Anne Pimlott Baker
Power, Edward Joseph [Ted] (1899–1993), radio engineer and art collector, was born on 11 September 1899 at Maryborough, Queen's county, Ireland, one of the four children of Patrick Power, an army sergeant in the Leinster regiment, and his wife, Jane, formerly Heart. The family moved to ...
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Round, Henry Joseph (1881–1966), radio engineer and inventor
Peter Baker and Betty Hance
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Round, Henry Joseph (1881–1966), radio engineer and inventor, was born on 2 June 1881 at Kingswinford, Staffordshire, the eldest child in the family of two sons and two daughters of Joseph Alfred Round, registrar of births and deaths, Cheltenham, and his wife, Gertrude Rider...
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Wood, Robert Henry (1903–1979), broadcasting engineer
Anne Pimlott Baker
Wood, Robert Henry (1903–1979), broadcasting engineer, was born on 27 October 1903 at 21 Dale Road, Buxton, Derbyshire, the only son and younger of the two children of Robert Henry Wood, journalist on the Buxton Advertiser, and his wife, Elizabeth Stonier. When the family moved to ...
