George Washington Pierce

George Washington Pierce (born Jan. 11, 1872, Webberville, Texas, U.S.—died Aug. 25, 1956, Franklin, N.H.) was an American inventor who was a pioneer in radiotelephony and a noted teacher of communication engineering. The second of three sons of a farm family, Pierce grew up on a cattle ranch and fared well enough in the modest rural schools of central Texas to graduate (1893) after three years at the University of Texas, Austin. He taught in...