Émile Baudot
Émile Baudot | |
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Émile Baudot | |
| Born | 11 September 1845 Magneux, Haute-Marne, France |
| Died | 28 March 1903 (aged 57) Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France |
| Spouse | Marie Josephine Adelaide Langrognet |
| Engineering career | |
| Projects | Baudot code |
| Significant advance | telecommunications |
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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.