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Émile Baudot

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Also known as Emile Baudot, Jean Maurice Émile Baudot, Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot

French engineer (1845-1903)

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Born
( 1845-09-11 ) 11 September 1845, Magneux, Haute-Marne , France
Died
28 March 1903 (1903-03-28) (aged 57), Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine , France
Spouse
Marie Josephine Adelaide Langrognet
Projects
Baudot code
Significant advance
telecommunications
Awards
Gold medal of the Exposition Universelle (1878) Knight's Cross of the Légion d'honneur , 1879 Officer of the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, 1898

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Instance of
human
Given name
Émile
Gender
male
Citizenship
France
Place of birth
Magneux
Place of death
Sceaux
Languages spoken
French
Field of work
telecommunications
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name in native language
Jean Maurice Émile Baudot
Commons category
Émile Baudot
date of birth
1845-09-11
date of death
1903-03-28
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Encyclopedic overview

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot ( French: [emil bodo]; 11 September 1845 – 28 March 1903) was a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the first means of digital communication Baudot code. He was one of the pioneers of telecommunications. He invented a multiplexed printing telegraph system that used his code and allowed multiple transmissions over a single line. The baud unit was named after him.

Early life

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