British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.

Guglielmo Marconi

Italian electrical engineer and inventor (1874–1937)

Guglielmo Giovanni Maria Marconi, 1st Marquess of Marconi was an Italian electrical engineer, inventor, and politician known for his creation of a practical radio wave-based wireless telegraph system. This led to Marconi being largely credited as the inventor of radio and…

History of radio

The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio…