Donald Lewes Hings, CM MBE (November 6, 1907 – February 25, 2004) was a British-Canadian inventor, born in Leicester, England.
In 1937[1] he created a portable radio signaling system for his employer CM&S, which he called a "packset", but which later became known as the "Walkie-Talkie".
While Hings was filing a U.S. patent for the packset in Spokane, Washington in 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.
During these years, he developed a number of models, including the successful C-58 Walkie-Talkie which eventually sold eighteen thousand units produced for infantry use, and for which he received the MBE in 1946 and the Order Of Canada in 2001.
He held more than 55 patents in Canada and the United States, and was the inventor of the klystron magnetometer geological survey system.