Émile Baudot

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What Wikipedia says

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.

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