Francisco Salva Campillo

Don Francisco Salva Campillo ( born July 12, 1751 Barcelona, † February 13, 1828 ) was a Spanish physician and inventor.

As the son of a doctor at the hospital in Barcelona, ​​he began his education at the College of Bishops of Barcelona. He studied at the universities of Valencia and Huesca and received his bachelor's degree with twenty years in medicine.

It was a great supporter of vaccination against smallpox with the Jenner vaccine and wrote important works on various diseases, including yellow fever.

He translated many works, developed a taste for Meteorology and made three daily weather observations for the Journal of Barcelona. In 1784 he rose from the orchard in the Plaza Santa Ana with a hot air balloon on. He invented a machine for packing of hemp and a boat for underwater navigation, taking but did not solve the problem with the indoor air.

On December 16, 1795 he reported the Academy in Barcelona on his experiments in wireless telegraphy.

In 1804 he built an electrolyte with 26 telegraph lines at the ends of glass tubes were where liquid decomposed at a power surge. A similar built five years later Samuel Thomas Soemmerring.