2nd June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi files a patent application for his system of wireless telegraphy

2nd June 1896: Guglielmo Marconi files a patent application for his system of wireless telegraphy

HistoryPod · 2025-06-02

Marconi filed a patent application in London for a spark-gap transmitter that generated radio waves and a coherer as a receiver to detect the signals, which was the first patent for a communication system based on radio ...

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