The Franklin Institute - Today is World #RadioDay. Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi began tinkering with wireless transmission of telegraph messages early in the 1890s. In May of 1897 he successfully sent a
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Piano City - On this day in 1897 Guglielmo Marconi received a patent for the transmission of audio utilising transmitters that broadcast using radio waves. This patent formed the basis for all
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