The term "baud" (a measure of symbols transmitted per second) is named after Emile Baudot.
In 1949, the French Post Office issued a series of stamps with his portrait. By mistake, the year of his birth was given as 1848, not the correct 1845. The stamps were subsequently re-issued with the correct year.
External links
ITU historical figures listing (http://www.itu.ch/aboutitu/HistoricalFigures.html)
Obituary of Baudot (http://www.enteract.com/~enf/baudot/necrologie.html)
Baudot's original code, developed around 1874 is known as International Telegraph Alphabet No 1, and is no longer used.
Around 1901 Baudot's code was modified by Donald Murray by re-ordering the characters, adding extra characters and shift codes.
The Russian version of Baudot code (MTK-2) used three shift modes, the Cyrillic letter mode was activated by the character (00000) unused in original ITA2.
EmileBaudot was born in 1845, Magneux, France and died on March1903, Sceaux.
Baudot used a different type of code for his system because Morse code didn't lend itself to automation, this was due to the uneven length and size of bits required for each letter.
During this period of twenty years, Baudot installations multiplied in France and spread in foreign countries, everywhere assuring excellent service in doubling, tripling, or quadrupling the efficiency of the wires.
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