Francisco Salva Campillo

Francisco Salva Campillo (Catalan: Francesc Salvà i Campillo, July 12, 1751 – February 13, 1828) was a Spanish Catalan prominent late-Enlightenment period scientist known for working as a physician, physicist, and meteorologist.

Early life and education Francisco Salva Campillo was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, on July 12, 1751. He was the son of Dr. Jerome Salvà Pontich, a staff physician at Barcelona General Hospital and Eulalia Campillo, his mother came from a wealthy family that worked in the pharmacy industry. This school was founded in an attempt to unite the two disciplines of clinical and non-clinical studies into a ‘united faculty'. Salva demonstrated the basis of electric telegraphy, anticipating the wireless telegraph and undersea cables.

The presentation of Salva attracted the attention of government and he received a formal invitation to demonstrate his telegraphic skills before the Royal Family in Aranjuez.