Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot
Baudot
J.M.E. Baudot

    (1845-1903) The inventor of the Baudot code.  Baudot
   joined the French Post & Telegraph Administration in 1869 as a
   telegraph operator.  In his own time he developed a code for
   sending several messages at once.  In 1874 Baudot patented his
   first printing telegraph where signals were translated onto paper
   tape.  The Baudot code was adopted first in France and then by
   other nations for  and  transmissions.

   The unit of transmission speed, baud, is named after him.

   (2013-01-12)