FECHA:Inventors, Innovators and Geniuses

The First Electronic Church of America

SAINTS: The Heroes and Geniuses of the Electronic Era

An Astounding Chain of Discovery: from Samuel F.B. Morse to William Gates. FECHA has its special heroes -- historic figures who explored the frontiers of electronic discovery to uncover the miraculous wonders of the universe that actually existed since the beginnings of that very universe. In a way, they are miracle-workers and role models . These men are included among FECHA's own saints and living heroes. If you have your own idea about who should be added to this list, please E-mail us. For instance, who actually invented the Compact Disk, the integrated circuit, microchips? Big corporations get credit for these, but we'd like to honor the individuals who actually did the work. Who are they?

THE SAINTS

James Clerk Maxwell, an Englishman whose work in electromagnetism opened the door to the Electronic Era

Samuel F.B. Morse, an American who created the first digitial information highway

Alexander Graham Bell, Scotish-born inventor of the telephone and more

Heinrich Hertz, the German who made it possible to send controlled waves of electrical energy invisibly through the air

Alexander Popov, the Russian who invented radio (also spelled "Popoff")

Guglielmo Marconi, the Italian who discovered how to make radio indispensable to the world

Thomas Alva Edison, he gave us light, sound and more - was he born in Mexico as "Tõmas"?

Nikola Tesla, the Serbian genius whose discoveries ushered in the era of electric and electronic power

Edwin Armstrong, the American inventor of FM radio

Howard Hughes, an American who made Arthur C. Clarke's communications satellite a reality

William Shockley, brought us the transistor - and controversy

THE LIVING HEROES

Jean Emile Charon, the French nuclear physicist turned metaphysicist

Arthur C. Clarke, the Englishman who conceived communications satellites

William Gates, an American who brought the electronic power of the computer to the masses

Peter Kann, Chief Executive Officer and Publisher of The Wall Street Journal

FIRST 100 YEARS OF RADIO

A brief story about how the works of some of these pioneers resulted in the development and advancement of wireless electronic communications

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