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.

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Who invented wireless technology?

Fast forward half a decade and Guglielmo Marconi is credited for inventing the world’s first “Wireless Telegraph” – demonstrating it to the British Government in 1896 (after the Italian government dismissed his claims, even recommending he be referred to an insane asylum).

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