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 | | 1505-1585), composer Michael Tippett, (1905-1998), composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, (1872-1958), composer William Walton, (1902-1983), composer Henry Wood, (1869-1944), conductor Philosophers Francis Bacon, (1561-1626), philosopher and essayist Jeremy Bentham, (1748-1832), philosopher Robert Boyle, (1627-1691), philosopher and physicist Thomas Hobbes, (1588-1679), philosopher John Locke, (1632-1704), philosopher John Stuart Mill, (1806-1873), economist, philosopher William of Ockham (c. |
 | | In 1887, Heaviside proposed that induction coils should be added to the transatlantic telegraph cable (increasing self-induction) in order to correct the distortion which it suffered. |
 | | Michael Idvorsky Pupin later devised means of extending the range of long-distance telephone communication by placing loading coils (of wire) at intervals along the transmitting wire which followed up on the ideas of Heaviside's research. |
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