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Spanish inventor of the first electric telegrapher.
He began his studies in Barcelona. The intellectual capacity of Salva opened him the doors to the University of Valencia, getting his bachelor's degree in medicine, practicing his profession with great success in Barcelona. He was a great advocate of the vaccine against smallpox and wrote important works on various diseases, including yellow fever.
Salva translated a number of papers, felt a special predilection for the weather, and inventing various devices for measuring and recording it. In 1784 conducted for the first time in Barcelona, the elevation of a balloon. Another invention of Dr. Salva was the boat-fish, half-century before Monturiol, but could not solve the problem of supplying air into the underwater vehicle. In 1795 appeared before the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona with his first report dedicated to "Electricity applied to telegraphy". In a Simply way, Salva put the basis of electric telegraph, also aspects of wireless telegraphy and submarine cables.
Salva's presentation drew the Spanish government attention, which sent a formal invitation for a demonstration before the Royal Family in Aranjuez. There is no evidence that he could receive and continued improvement of the system. His progress has published a new report on galvanism and its application to telegraphy.
In 1804, Salva read his findings to the Academy of Sciences in Barcelona, bringing two new developments with regard to any previous system. On the one hand, the use of dynamic electricity provided by a voltaic cell, and secondly, the use of electrochemical origin receivers, an original system that was based on the decomposition of water by electrolysis.
Dr. Francisco Salva Campillo, died at age 76 in Barcelona, on February 13, 1828. Fulfilling his last wish, was extracted his heart, which is in an urn, with his books at the Royal Academy of Medicine of Barcelona.
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variant spelling:
Salva y Campillo, Francisco; Salva i Campillo, Francesc
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Curriculum vitae
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* 1751
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Barcelona
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born
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1784
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Barcelona
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He Conducted, for the first time in Barcelona, the elevation of a balloon.
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1795
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Barcelona
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He submitted to the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of Barcelona his first report dedicated to "Electricity applied to telegraphy".
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1804
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Barcelona
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He published "Second memory on galvanism applied to telegraphy".
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† 1828
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Barcelona,Spain
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died
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