Delboy’s Radio Blog
The conflicting claims of Marconi within the UK and Popov in the USSR as the inventors of wi-fi telegraphy are discussed at length by Barrett.(5) He describes the programs used by both, and after considering revealed data and oblique proof and claims, concludes that Marconi ‘may be named because the inventor of radio communication’ Considering all of the proof, there could be no doubt that Marconi, in true entrepreneurial spirit, saw a chance for exploiting the fledgling science of wi-fi telegraphy when many scientists have been still captivated by the novelty and the underlying science. Certainly Marconi, starting with his early experiments at the Villa Griffone in Italy in 1894 and 1895, devoted his energies to creating a workable system for the transmission of messages with out wires. It is on this that his pioneering status is founded.
Its historical past dates again to 1918, when the Wireless Telegraphy Board … Read the rest