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Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his wireless telegraph.
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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…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Patent
Type of legal protection for an invention
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Wireless telegraphy
Method of communication
Wireless telegraphy or radiotelegraphy is the transmission of text messages by radio waves, analogous to electrical telegraphy using cables. Before about 1910, the term wireless telegraphy was also used for other experimental technologies for transmitting telegraph signals…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)