History of wireless technology Timeline

Guglielmo Marconi developed the first wireless telegraph system in 1896 . The following year Marconi sent the world’s first ever wireless communication over open sea. The experiment witnessed a message travelled over a distance of 6 kilometres (3.7 mi).

The inventor of wireless telecommunication, Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was born on November 30, 1858 in British India’s Bengal Presidency. Google is celebrating his birth anniversary with a special doodle.

“The world’s first wireless telephone conversation occurred in 1880, when Alexander Graham Bell and Charles Sumner Tainter invented and patented the photophone, a telephone that conducted audio conversations wirelessly over modulated light beams (which are narrow projections of electromagnetic waves).”