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Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS

Photograph at the Sir William Henry Preece KCB FRS bronze plaque

1834 1913 This tablet raised by public subscription commemorates one of the earliest pioneers of wireless telegraphy Sir William Henry Preece K.C.B. F.R.S. Engineer-in-Chief to the Post Office A native and first honorary freeman of Caernarvon. He was amongst the foremost of pioneers in the development of wireless telegraphy and one of the first to experiment successfully with the sending of the spoken word through space. Arloesydd Ynglyn a holl ddatblygiadau cynnar y radio yn Y wlad hon a thros y moroedd

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