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"David Hughes may refer to: Arts *Dave Hughes (producer), American television producer and editor *David L.G. Hughes, English screenwriter and film director *David Hughes (illustrator), British illustrator *Dave Hughes (born 1970), Australian comedian *David Hughes (Emmerdale), fictional character in the ITV soap opera Emmerdale =Literature= *David Hughes (Eos Iâl) (1794–1862), Welsh poet and publisher *David Hughes (illustrator), English artist and illustrator *David Hughes (novelist) (1930–2005), British novelist =Music= *David Hughes (bass player) (born 1971), Swedish musician *David Hughes (musician) (born 1960), English keyboardist *David Hughes (tenor) (1925–1972), English singer *Dave Hughes (musician) (born 1981), American musician Science *David Hughes (astronomer) (born 1941), English astronomer specialising in comets ** 4205 David Hughes, an asteroid *David Edward Hughes (1831–1900), British-born inventor, known for the microphone, and later, American academic Sports =Cricket= *David Hughes (Hertfordshire cricketer) (born 1978), Irish cricketer *David Hughes (Lancashire cricketer) (born 1947), English cricketer *David Hughes (Somerset cricketer) (born 1934), English cricketer =Football= *David Hughes (American football) (born 1959), American football player *David Hughes (footballer, born 1943), English footballer *Dave Hughes (footballer) (born 1945), Australian rules footballer *David Hughes (footballer, born 1958), English footballer *David Hughes (footballer, born 1972), Welsh footballer *David Hughes (footballer, born 1978), Welsh footballer =Other sports= *David Hughes (hurler) (born 1967), Irish hurler *David Hughes (sailor) (born 1978), American sailor Other persons *David Hughes (college principal) (1753/1754–1817), Principal of Jesus College, Oxford *David Hughes (priest) (1785–1850), Welsh Anglican priest *David Hughes (RAF officer) (1899–?), First World War flying ace *David Hughes (railroad executive), interim president and CEO of Amtrak, 2005–2006 *Dave Hughes (politician), American politician See also *Ysgol David Hughes, a school in Wales named after a local philanthropist *Hughes (surname) "
"Sir William Henry Preece (15 February 1834 – 6 November 1913) was a Welsh electrical engineer and inventor. Preece relied on experiments and physical reasoning in his life's work. Upon his retirement from the Post Office in 1899, Preece was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1899 Birthday Honours. Biography Preece was born in Caernarfon (Gwynedd), Wales. He was educated at King's College School and King's College London. Preece studied at the Royal Institution in London (Great Britain) under Michael Faraday. He later was the consulting engineer for the Post Office (1870s). He became Engineer-in-Chief of the British General Post Office in 1892. He developed several improvements in railroad signalling system that increased railway safety. Preece and Oliver Lodge maintained a correspondence during this period. Upon Lodge's proposal of "loading coils" applied to submerged cables, Preece did not realise that "Earthing" would extend the distance and efficiency. Telegraphy In 1889 Preece assembled a group of men at Coniston Water in the Lake District in Lancashire and succeeded in transmitting and receiving Morse radio signals over a distance of about 1 mile (1.6 km) across water.South African Military History Society – Journal – WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY DURING THE ANGLO-BOER WAR OF 1899–1902 at rapidttp.co.za Preece also developed a wireless telegraphy and telephony system in 1892. Preece developed a telephone system and implemented it in England. A similar telephone system was patented in the United States by Alexander Graham Bell in 1876. In 1885, Preece and Arthur West Heaviside (Oliver Heaviside's brother) experimented with parallel telegraph lines and an unwired telephone receiver, discovering radio induction (later identified with the effects of crosstalk). Preece blocked publication of some of Arthur and Oliver Heaviside's work. There was a long history of animosity between Preece and Oliver Heaviside. Heaviside considered Preece to be mathematically incompetent, an assessment supported by the biographer Paul J. Nahin: "Preece was a powerful government official, enormously ambitious, and in some remarkable ways, an utter blockhead." Preece's motivations in suppressing Heaviside's work were more to do with protecting Preece's own reputation and avoiding having to admit error than any perceived faults in Heaviside's work. Radio In 1897, with Marconi radio experiments from Lavernock Point in south Wales to the island of Flatholm, Preece became one of Marconi's most ardent supporters. He made various efforts to support Guglielmo Marconi in the wireless field. Preece gained financial assistance from the Post Office to help expand Marconi's work. Preece believed that the Earth's magnetic field was critical in the propagation of radio waves over long distances. He had a long-standing rivalry with Oliver Heaviside over his understanding of electricity. It was derisively referred to as "the drain-pipe theory" by Heaviside, because Preece relied on an analogy between electricity and water for thought experiments. Reportedly, he rejected and never understood James Clerk Maxwell's advances to mathematical physics, and insisted that adding inductance to a telegraph line could only be detrimental, even while Maxwell's and Heaviside's theory and experiments showed that inductance could help. Preece once stated, conveying sentiments later expressed by Edwin Armstrong, Preece served as president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between April 1898 and November 1899. References External links * Russell Naughton, "Adventures in CyberSound: Preece, William Henry". * "100 Welsh Heroes / 100 Arwyr Cymru", 73. Sir William Henry Preece, Groundbreakers. Culturenet Cymru, 2004. * Oil on canvas painting by Beatrice Bright of Sir William Preece Category:1834 births Category:1913 deaths Category:People educated at King's College School, London Category:Alumni of King's College London Category:Knights Commander of the Order of the Bath Category:Welsh electrical engineers Category:Presidents of the Institution of Civil Engineers Category:Presidents of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers Category:Welsh scientists Category:Fellows of the Royal Society Category:People from Caernarfonshire Category:20th-century Welsh scientists Category:19th-century Welsh scientists Category:20th-century British engineers Category:19th-century British engineers "
"Sir Peter Tait, (5 September 1915 – 31 January 1996), was a New Zealand National Party Member of Parliament, Napier mayor, small businessman and opponent of New Zealand's Homosexual Law Reform Act. Early life Five fishermen sitting by their nets on a beach, with a young boy, Peter Tait. Tait was born on 5 September 1915, in Wellington's Island Bay suburb. His family were Scottish immigrants, originally from the Shetland Islands. His father Jack and his uncles Peter and Ross belonged to the best known Shetland fishing families in Island Bay. Through his early life, Tait suffered from tuberculosis, which meant that he was unable to play an active role in New Zealand's Second World War effort, nor could he become a Baptist minister. He moved from Waipukurau, a rural community, to the East Coast of the North Island, and ultimately settled in Napier. Once established there, he opened a shoe store, which came to have branches in Waipukurau, Napier, Hastings and Dannevirke. Political career =Member of Parliament= Tait served as the National Member of Parliament for Napier (1951–1954). =Mayor of Napier= Two years after leaving Parliament, he became Mayor of Napier for the next eighteen years (1956–1974). Later life and death Tait was a Baptist, who helped to organise the Coalition of Concerned Citizens in the mid-eighties, and fought against homosexual law reform. Ultimately, though, the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed its final reading. Tait then ran foul of his former colleagues in the 'Gang of Twenty' affair in 1989 when the contributory mortgage company he chaired, AdvisorCorp, found itself the target of attacks from National Party leader Jim Bolger. Bolger would later publicly apologise to Tait, but two of the principals in the company were successfully prosecuted and AdvisorCorp collapsed. He funded the Tait Fountain in Napier, which commemorates Victory in Europe Day and was dedicated on 9 May 1995 on the 50th anniversary of the end of that war. Tait was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 1967 New Year HonoursLondon Gazette (supplement), No. 44212, 30 December 1966. Retrieved 11 March 2013. and promoted to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1975 New Year Honours. He died in 1996. References *Obituary: Peter Tait from Evening Post (Wellington) 2 October 1996 *Laurie Guy: Worlds in Collision: The Gay Law Reform Debate in New Zealand: 1960-1985 Wellington: Victoria University Press: (2002) Category:1915 births Category:1996 deaths Category:New Zealand National Party MPs Category:New Zealand activists Category:New Zealand Baptists Category:Mayors of Napier, New Zealand Category:New Zealand MPs for North Island electorates Category:Members of the New Zealand House of Representatives Category:Unsuccessful candidates in the 1954 New Zealand general election Category:New Zealand Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Category:New Zealand politicians awarded knighthoods "