Pavel Schilling

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Baron Pavel L'vovitch Schilling, Paul Schilling (c.1780, Reval (now, Tallinn, Estonia) - 1836 St. Petersburg, Russia), was a diplomat of Baltic German origin in service of Russia in Germany who constructed a revolutionary new telegraph, consisting of a single needle system in which a code was used to indicate the characters.

His first line of the electromagnetic telegraph was set up in Schilling's apartment in St Petersburg. In 1832, Schilling demonstrated the long-distance transmission of signals by positioning two telegraphs of his invention - his telegraph said to be the first electromagnetic telegraph in the world - in two different rooms of his apartment. Schilling was the first to put into practice the idea of the binary system of signal transmission.

The most important exhibit in the telegraph collection of A.S. Popov Central Museum Of Communications is the first telegraph device, invented by Shilling in 1832. The device was first used in 1835 on an underground line of the Admiralty building, and was approved. The quick development of telegraphy is shown by the fact that only months later, Göttingen professors Gauß and Wilhelm Weber constructed a telegraph that was working two years before Schilling could put his into practice. Also, because one visitor Steinheil promoted the idea to the Bavarian king, and another visitor Reuters later went to London to found the news agency, Schilling was maybe the first, but not the quickest promoter of his idea.