 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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On this day ... in 1896.
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The Evening Standard (London, England)
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June 2, 2005
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GUGLIELMO MARCONI patented the radio.
Born in Bologna in 1874, he was only 20 when he came up with the theory of sending messages in radio waves through the air.
He thought it such a simple idea that someone else must have already come up with it, and sat on it for a year before starting his experiments.
Building on the theories of German physicist Heinrich Hertz - the first to produce and detect radio waves - he began testing their use for sending...
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