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.

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Who is the father of wireless?

Guglielmo Marconi – the father of wireless communication and recipient of the 1909 #NobelPrize in Physics – died #OTD in 1937. In the late 1800s Marconi was able to use recently discovered radio waves to transmit signals across the English Channel, from Britain to France.

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