Emile Baudot

Émile Baudot was a French telegraph engineer and inventor of the Baudot code, which is used in telegraphy and early digital communications. The Baudot code was a binary 5-bit code, previously used in telegraphy and teletype machines, and is a predecessor to modern character encoding schemes like ASCII and Unicode.

Known for his invention of the Baudot code, a binary character encoding system used in early telegraphy and early versions of teleprinters. The Baudot code was a significant advancement in communication technology, as it allowed for the transmission of characters using a five-bit code, reducing the time and cost of telegraphy. Baudot's code laid the foundation for subsequent character encoding systems and played a crucial role in the development of modern digital communication. His contributions to telegraphy and information encoding have had a lasting impact on the field of telecommunications.

Jean-Maurice-Émile Baudot 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.