Émile Baudot
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French engineer (1845-1903)
Key facts
- 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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Wikidata facts
- 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
- Image
- Emile Baudot.jpg
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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
- described at URL
- www.computerhope.com/people/jeanmauriceemile_baudot.htm
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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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