Francis Ronalds
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Sir Francis Ronalds was an English scientist and inventor, sometimes described as the first electrical engineer. He was knighted for creating the first working electric telegraph over a substantial di
Ronalds, c. 1870
Elements of the subterranean electric telegraph built by Francis Ronalds in 1816
The first successful camera for making continuous recordings of scientific instruments, built by Francis Ronalds in 1845. This example is an electrograph measuring atmospheric electricity
Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet
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Sir John Barrow, 1st Baronet was an English geographer, linguist, writer and civil servant. He partook in the Macartney Embassy to China, then worked and studied in South Africa, and served as the Sec
Francis Ronalds
…He complemented his vision with a working telegraph system built in and under his mother's garden at Hammersmith. It was rejected on 5 August 1816 by Sir John Barrow, Secretary at the Admiralty, as being "wholly unnecessary". Commercialisation of the telegraph only began two decades later in the UK, led by William…
Portrait by John Jackson, c. 1810
The Castle at Cape Town in about 1800, painted by John Barrow
The Arctic Council Planning a Search for Sir John Franklin by Stephen Pearce, 1851. Barrow's son John Barrow Jr. commissioned the painting.