Who started wireless technology?

In 1894, Guglielmo Marconi began developing a wireless telegraph system using radio waves, which had been known about since proof of their existence in 1888 by Heinrich Hertz, but discounted as a communication format since they seemed, at the time, to be a short range phenomenon.

Read more

Why was the wireless invented?

Wifi 101 tells the story behind the creation of wifi technology in a radio-physics lab at CSIRO in the 1990s. The team recognised the problem of reverberation , where in confined spaces radio waves bounce off surfaces such as furniture and walls, causing the signal to be scrambled, and they set out to solve the problem.

Read more